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Health workers offer rural tele-counseling to contain COVID-19 myths -Manisha Dutta and Hyjel D’Souza

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With lack of access to authentic information, myths and fears proliferate. Health workers counsel communities over phone, addressing their anxieties about the disease and the returned migrants

As COVID-19 grips the entire world in its talons and affects communities across geographies, ethnicities, caste and class, a wave of misinformation is spreading, sparking fear. This wave seems to have overtaken the outbreak, and poses a threat that may be more harmful than the virus itself.

Several socio-economic, cultural and psychological factors play a part in how people perceive risks during such outbreaks. The anxiety is amplified when the individual has little control over it, when it comes from an unverified source, or seem novel or exotic.

With COVID-19 there have been a lot of confusion and uncertainty, further convoluted by false information shared via social media. In addition, studies show how restrictive practices like quarantine and imposed isolation fuel fears and suspicion in the community.

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