Research has, perhaps unsurprisingly, found that Covid-19 is currently what concerns Manx residents the most.

Polling by Island Global Research compared the response to the pandemic in the Isle of Man to that in the Channel Islands.

The most recent figures from IGR show that 38% of Manx respondents said that the virus is their biggest concern, followed by 21% who said the economy, 13% said health and social care, 8% air and sea links and 7% said poverty and inequality.

Respondents were also asked to pick which issues are affecting the island, in no specific order.

A total of 79% said sea and air links and the economy while 74% said Covid-19.

Of the Manx respondents, only health and social care (69%) was selected by more than 50% of the 408 people in the Isle of Man who took part.

Across the Crown Dependencies, respondents to the survey overwhelmingly (78%) said that poorer people have been affected worse by the health pandemic when taking into account health, social and economic factors.

Unlike other sections, this was not divided up into each jurisdiction.

This is more evenly split when asked between young (30%) and older (33%) people while 16% said men were worse affected compared to 11% who said women.