السيطرة على إشاعات كورونا

Abstract EN

Since 19/12/2019, the whole world is suffering from both Coronavirus Pandemic and Infodemic rumor virus that goes parallel to the pandemic and sometimes faster and more dangerous than it.

Rumors and potentially harmful.

The two crises have big negative impacts on health, political, social, religious, economical aspects of life.

This qualitative analytical study aims at shedding the light on Covide-19 rumor phenomena , its topics, types, life-cycle, channels , its negative impact on societies, strategic plans to control it and the immunization process of the people against it through anti-rumor campaigns and making partners with the influential people in the community and alliances with trusted traditional media and social media platforms in order to strengthen the peoples' trust in both the health authorities and government authorities .

The Covid-19 rumors are harmful because the succeeded in spreading fear, anxiety, frustration, despair, confusion, hesitancy to take vaccines and information disorder.

Since no body is immune from this virus there should be a global joint effort of both the health and the political authorities at the local, regional and international level to immunize the people by keeping informed about up-to-date information about covid-19