2 minute read Malawi’s Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda (C) shows the press a pack of expired Covid-19 vaccines, at a pharmaceutical incinerator where the vaccines are to be destroyed, in Lilongwe, 19 May 2021, AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images To counter the misinformation and disinformation defining the social media and street narrative on the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi, MISA-Malawi draws on providing expert-based information. This statement was originally published on misa.org on 3 July 2021. Journalists in Malawi are fighting misinformation around Covid-19 by providing expert-based information on the pandemic. Since the detection of the first Covid-19 case in April 2020, misinformation and disinformation around the pandemic have hugely defined social media and street narrative in Malawi.