PTI,

Around 84 per cent of people feel the world will recover from the COVID-19 pandemic in 6-12 months, a survey said.

Covid-19 is leading the list of diseases people are extremely concerned about, followed by cancer and HIV/AIDS, according to the study by market research and analysis company Velocity MR.

The sample size of the study was 2,100 and the data was collected between March 19 and 20 through an online survey among the consumer panel of Markelytics (Velocity MR is the full-service arm of Markelytics).

About 84 per cent of the respondents were optimistic that the world will recover from COVID-19 in the next 6 months to 1 year.