A huge majority of people agree that the restrictions imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus should be relaxed now that the situation has much improved, according to the result of an opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.
The poll was carried out on May 4-7 on 1,259 people aged 18 and above throughout the country, asking their opinions about the measures which have been imposed by the government, including the lockdown of the country.
Asked whether they thought that restrictions should now be relaxed, a huge majority - 83.95% - said "yes". Of them, 34.39% said they strongly agreed with the idea as the number of infections had dropped, people had cooperated with the health guidelines issued by the government and some businesses had been allowed to re-open.
On the other side, 9.93% said they did not agree, saying that if the relaxation happened too quickly there could a second wave of the pandemic, while 6.04% strongly opposed relaxing restrictions.
The rest had no comment or were not interested.
Asked whether they believed the people and businesses would strictly comply with the health guidelines to prevent the virus spreading after shops were allowed to re-open, 18.19% said they had a strong belief that they would do so while 48.77% said they also believed that most people would be more responsible.
Asked whether they worried that there would be a second wave of Covid-19, 15.33% said they were very worried about this possibility, while 47.58% were fairly concerned that with people being allowed to travel from high risk areas, a second wave of the virus could spread.
