...Paul Kariuki; Lizzy Oluwatoyin Ofusori; Maria Lauda Goyayi; Prabhakar Rontala Subramaniam Purpose The purpose of this paper was to examine health-related misinformation proliferation during COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on public governance in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach...

.... The COVID-19 crisis is already creating trade-offs between the need to safeguard public health and the limitation of certain civil liberties. Estonia, Latvia and Romania have notified the application of Article 15 European convention on human rights [ 6 ]; and a recent collection of guidance documents shows...