China News Service, March 15. According to Yonhap News Agency, a survey released by a research team at the Graduate School of Health at Seoul National University on the 15th showed that 27.8% of South Koreans thought they were likely to be infected with the new coronavirus, a record high in the past two years. the highest record.
On January 26, local time, outside the testing point in front of the city hall in Seoul, South Korea, people line up for nucleic acid testing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Xu
The survey was conducted among 1,000 people across the country from February 25 to March 2, the report said.
According to the survey, 27.8% of respondents answered "I have a high possibility of contracting the new coronavirus", the highest since the survey began in January 2020.
47.9% answered "the consequences are very serious when infected", the lowest since the survey began.
When asked about whether the Korean society could control the epidemic, 63.4% answered "impossible", the highest since the survey began, far higher than the proportion of "can be controlled" (36.6%).
The survey shows that the national compliance with the epidemic prevention code has decreased compared with January 2021.
The proportion of "cancellation of gatherings and absence from scheduled activities" was 71.8%, a decrease of 15.4 percentage points from January 2021, and the proportion of "avoiding the use of public gathering facilities" decreased by 8.4 percentage points to 76.4%.
In addition, the public's trust in epidemic prevention agencies such as the Agency for Disease Control and the Ministry of Health and Welfare dropped to 63.3% from 83% in June 2020.