The study, sent today to the Lusa agency, was conducted by Marktest Angola, between 9 and 13 July, with interviews with 447 people over 15 years of age on new measures to prevent and combat covid-19.
Classes in Angola have been suspended since last March due to the pandemic and should have resumed on 13 July, but the authorities have retreated due to the increase in cases of covid-19, without advancing a new date.
The survey shows that only 1.7 per cent of respondents advocated "starting classes now".
On the new measures to prevent and combat covid-19, which reaffirms the health fence in the province of Luanda, the epicenter of the pandemic, and Kwanza Norte, the mandatory wearing of masks on the street, 75 percent of Luandans agree with the decisions.
However, 8 percent of those interviewed do not agree with the new rules, because they reduce sales days (20 percent), cause economic difficulties, namely lack of food (17 percent) and see no need to implement new measures (14 percent), and 7 percent still believe that the authorities have taken the measures without thinking about the people.
Regarding the use of protective masks, whose use is now compulsory in the street, the survey reveals that the vast majority (72 per cent) make use of handicrafts, made with cloth from Congo.
"About 92 percent of those wearing masks in the Congo wear them one day before washing, and about 96 percent of those wearing surgical masks also wear them just one day," the document notes, noting that 61 percent of those wearing the surgical mask throw it away and 39 percent reuse it by washing it.
Regarding the way the authorities are proceeding in the face of the pandemic, around 65 per cent believe they are "doing well or very well" and around 11 per cent say they are "doing badly or very badly", while around 77 per cent believe the President of the Republic is doing well in the face of the challenges of covid-19.
The survey indicates that more than half of those interviewed (52 per cent) trust official information about covid-19, but about 30 per cent think the data is not credible.
Angola has recorded since March, when the first covid-19 infection emerged, a cumulative 576 positive cases, of which 425 are active and 124 have recovered, with a record of 27 deaths.
