Poll: S'poreans least worried among South-East Asians about getting Covid-19, but less secure about jobs


Only 27 per cent of Singapore residents are expecting the economy to improve in the next six months. - The Straits Times/Asian News Network

SINGAPORE, Oct 24 (The Straits Times/ANN): While residents of Singapore are the least worried about contracting Covid-19 compared with people from five other South-east Asian countries, they are also the most pessimistic about an economic recovery, according to a research survey.

The findings released on Friday (Oct 23) showed that more than half of 500 Singapore residents indicated they are less confident about their job security compared with three months earlier - the highest observed when compared with respondents from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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