Just under 25% of islanders believe it will be over a year before life returns to normal.

Survey company Island Global Research has polled residents in the Crown Dependencies as to how the Covid-19 has impact on all of our lives.

The most recently released polling data focuses on the perceived threat from the virus, changes in lifestyle, physical activity, loneliness, anxiety and when we think things will return to ’normal’.

Of the 440 Manx residents who took part in the poll, 24% said they don’t expect life to return to ’normal’ for over a year. In contrast, 23% believe this could happen in under three months.

A further 20% of people believed that life would be back to how it was between three to six months, with the same number believing it would take six to nine months. The remaining 13% said it would take between nine and 12 months.

Comparatively, our figures are closest to Guernsey where a combined 47% of respondents believe it would take up to six months, compared to our combined figure of 43%.

A much larger percentage of Jersey’s residents (73%) believe it will take over six months. In the UK, only 26% believe it the pandemic will have passed within six months.

In the Isle of Man, 81% of respondents said they had been physically active during the previous week.

The IGR poll also asked residents how satisfied they are with life at this time. Just under a third (32%) said they were ’thriving’, with 49% saying the were ’struggling’ and 19% admitted they are ’suffering’.

When asked if they felt optimistic about the future in the past week, 23% of Manx respondents said ’rarely/never’ 48% said ’some’ and 29% said ’often/always’.

The most successful figure from a community perspective is 54% of people said they ’rarely/never’ felt lonely or isolated. However, 29% of people said they had felt this at least ’some’ of the time while 17% said they felt it ’often/always’.

The health of family and friends was causing the most anxiety (56%) with respondents, followed by news about Covid-19 (47%) and money or financial problems (40%).

For more details on this survey, or to take part in IGR polls, visit www.islandglobalresearch.com.