Coronavirus, food security identified as utmost priorities in new opinion poll » Capital News

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 6 – Majority of Kenyans have singled out coronavirus and food security as issues of utmost concern with 55 and 47 per cent of respondents interviewed in a new study urging the government to upscale its efforts to address the two.

The survey released by Infotrak Research and Consulting on Sunday noted that the government should also focus on access to quality healthcare, unemployment, high cost of living and access to clean water as it battles the global pandemic which has infected more than 1.2 million people worldwide.

Forty-one per cent of 831 respondents sampled across 24 of Kenya’s 47 between March 30 and April 2 counties however believe the threat posed by the virus has been exaggerated with nearly half of people surveyed dismissing it as a common cold.

Thirty-five per cent of the respondents told the pollster they were planning to take their families upcountry despite a government advisory against unnecessary urban-rural travel until the pandemic is quelled.

Infotrak’s reported a 95 per cent degree of confidence.