Singaporeans increasingly support living with Covid-19, Poll Shows


People take pictures of a display of bazaar stalls that showcase products commonly traded in the Silk Road during the Tulipmania floral display, which is held in partnership with the Kazakhstan embassy, at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. - Reuters

SINGAPORE, Oct 12 (Bloomberg): Nearly one-third of Singapore’s residents now support living with Covid-19, a poll showed, after a push by its leader to treat the pathogen as endemic.

Some 29% of respondents support such a strategy, according to an online poll conducted by Milieu Insight, a Singapore-based consumer insight and analytics firm, compared to 23% in a prior survey conducted earlier this month after the government tightened some anti-virus measures.

About 15% of the 1,201 people queried prefer a strict Covid Zero policy, down from 22%, while 43% prefer a mix of the two approaches, it found.

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