Armed with social media, youth fight coronavirus 'infodemic'

Sithandekile Mlauzi, 29, a VSO volunteer sits with her notebook and tablet on her lap in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on July 11, 2020. [Thomson Reuters Foundation]

Drinking alcohol will kill the coronavirus. It is OK to share face masks. Africans cannot get COVID-19. The pandemic is not even real.

These are some of the coronavirus myths that a team of 20 Zimbabwean youth have been busting online since the country's lockdown began in late March, using social media and radio shows to reach an estimated 100,000 people to date.