Seoul, December 11, 2011 : .Seven in ten South Koreans think that the government’s campaign of “living with Covid-19,” has increased the chance of infection, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday.
The survey, commissioned by a research team led by Prof.Yoo Myung-soon of Seoul National University’s graduate school of public health, found that 69 per cent of respondents said they saw the public risk related to Covid-19 as having increased after implementation of the scheme aimed at returning to normal life while treating the virus as a seasonal disease, reports Yonhap News Agency.
It said 23.1 per cent assessed the risk level from the government measures as “normal”, while 8 per cent said the risk level has not increased.
Survey results from last month did not reflect the alarming rise in cases or the appearance of the Omicron variant.
Almost half of respondents believed that the government has not prepared sufficient measures against an increase in transmission risks.
Of those, 58.1 per cent pointed to the lack of hospital beds and 29.8 per cent said medical workers to treat critical patients needed to be increased.
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