Public Awareness Campaign on Facebook and Landing page on COVID19 for the Ministry of Health & Wellness

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

The Ministry of Health & Wellness (MoHW) had decided that public awareness campaign be run on social media. A facebook account and a landing page has been setup to create awareness on COVID19 which has become a pandemic and how to prevent the spreading of the disease. Also, MoHW is using this platform to communicate important notice, advice, government communiques to the citizen.

Country

Mauritius

Institution

Ministry of Health & Wellness (MoHW),Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation (MITCI), Central Informatics Bureau(CIB)