The case to scale up edutainment as an effective public health communication intervention to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe

Tafadzwa Dzinamarira ^1,2 * , Brian Nachipo ³, Albert Nyathi ⁴, Roda Madziva ⁵, Helena Herrera ⁶, Hugh Siegel ⁷, Godfrey Musuka ²

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