By CNBC-TV18 IST (Published)
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Since the last week of March schools and cinema halls have remained closed due to the outbreak of Coronavirus crisis. News18 conducted a poll to gauge public sentiment towards reopening of schools and cinema halls.
Since the last week of March schools and cinema halls have remained closed due to the outbreak of Coronavirus crisis. News18 conducted a poll to gauge public sentiment towards reopening of schools and cinema halls.
In the News18PublicSentimeter poll, 50 percent respondents said that they will watch a movie in a hall only when a vaccine is available and cases go down.
On the other hand, 27 percent said they were planning watch a movie in cinema in the next 6 months and of them 14 percent expressed willingness to visit a cinema hall as soon as they reopen.
Nearly 10 percent respondents said that they didn’t foresee themselves watching a movie in a hall ever again.
Again 53.5 percent of respondents, who were polled, said they don’t miss going to a cinema hall and 41 percent said they do.
Parents/guardians of school-going children, who were polled, 65 percent said they were willing to send their children to school only when a vaccine is available and COVID-19 cases come down.
Only 16.7 percent of parents said they will send their children to school as soon as they reopen.
In the short survey, 2,000 respondents were polled and the online poll was conducted in 13 languages.
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