{"id":2329,"date":"2020-03-28T18:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogsback.org.za\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2020-09-18T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:00:30","slug":"reputable-sources-of-information-about-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/reputable-sources-of-information-about-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"REPUTABLE SOURCES of information about Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"955\" height=\"547\" src=\"http:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/carona.jpg\" alt=\"corona in Hogback\" class=\"wp-image-2512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/carona.jpg 955w, https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/carona-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/carona-768x440.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The World Health Organisation portal for Covid-19 &#8211; the global centre of factual and trustworthy information on the pandemic. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019<\/a><\/li><li> Prevention advice in plain and simple language from the NHS in the UK. Note that the &#8216;lockdown&#8217; advice here does not apply to SA, but the prevention advice is universal. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\/<\/a>  <\/li><li> The South African Covid-19 portal for the public &#8211; unfortunately not being updated every day.  <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/sacoronavirus.co.za\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/sacoronavirus.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/sacoronavirus.co.za\/<\/a> <\/li><li> The South African government updates page which IS being updated frequently. Contains useful pages on fake news, infographics in various languages, regulations etc.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/Coronavirus (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/Coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gov.za\/Coronavirus<\/a> <\/li><li> If you really want to get news from &#8220;the horse&#8217;s mouth&#8221;, this is the SA government newsroom that contains the latest official statements, most recent first. Valuable for getting clarity on lock-down. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/newsroom (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/newsroom\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gov.za\/newsroom<\/a> <\/li><li> Covid Visualizer: current statistics by country and globally. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.covidvisualizer.com\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.covidvisualizer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.covidvisualizer.com\/<\/a> <\/li><li> Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard: for the statistics geeks. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fake news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Anyone that creates or spreads fake news about the Coronavirus COVID-19 is liable for prosecution. Verify the information before you share information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/coronavirus\/fakenews\">https:\/\/www.gov.za\/coronavirus\/fakenews<\/a> <\/li><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/?s=covid-19\">https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/?s=covid-19<\/a>  (or you can just copy what you want to post into Google or snopes)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/hogsback.org.za\/blog\/2020\/03\/28\/hogsback-covid-19\/\">Covid-19 index<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hogsback.org.za\/blog\/2020\/03\/28\/hogsback-covid-19\/#medicalhelp\">Medical help<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation portal for Covid-19 &#8211; the global centre of factual and trustworthy information on the pandemic. https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019 Prevention advice in plain and simple language from the NHS &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":2512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[182,180],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-village-notices","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithogsback.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}