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Garlic, pets, antibiotics: what Saffers do and don’t know about Covid-19

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A new survey has revealed that some South Africans know ‘nothing at all’ about the pandemic 🤯

Despite extensive news coverage and awareness campaigns by A survey conducted by gig economy company M4Jam through 1,000 respondents’ cellphones indicated that while 55% of the sample believed they knew “a great deal” about Covid-19, some of their responses contradicted this.a ‘fair amount’, with only 3% claiming to know ‘nothing at all’ about the most newsworthy event of the year,” said Georgie Midgley, CEO of M4Jam.

If they noticed symptoms in themselves or others, 88% said they knew what to do to seek help and get tested.Georgie Midgley Forty-one percent were uncertain of whether taking antibiotics could prevent contracting the virus and 10% incorrectly thought antibiotics could prevent transmission.

 

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