The poll was conducted online on April 7-10 on 2,970 people throughout the country.
A huge majority, 89.30%, said they worried about the situation, while 10.70% said otherwise.
Asked whether they felt assured regarding the government’s ability to stem the spread of COVID-19, 58.75% were not confident - 36.09% not particularly confident and 22.66% not confident at all. On the other side, 33.07% said they were quite confident and 8.18% very confident.
Asked to outline what worried them the most in this situation, with each respondent allowed to give more than one answer, 87.68% pointed to the government’s handling of the problem; 86.71% the work of medical personnel; 85.11% the possibility of being infected; 77.14% their daily expenses; 76.59% their work; 76.32% travel; 74.32% acquisition of items for self-protection such as hand sanitising gel and face masks; 73.23% their debts; and 71.64% availability of food.
Asked what they wanted the government to do as soon as possible, 87.10% wanted it to limit the COVID-19 spread; 71.38% to take serious control of goods prices; 68.22% to extend coronavirus testing; 65.49% to reduce water and electricity prices or provide free water and electricity; 63.91% to introduce a debt moratorium for everybody; 59.80% to provide money to assist low-income earners; 58.25% to give compensation to the unemployed or people laid off from their jobs; 45.93% to introduce tax reductions; 44.44% to provide low-interest loans or lower the interest rate; and 30.88% to ensure effective and transparent administration of all measures taken to tackle the coronavirus-related problems.