Public Health

Both in Malaysia and globally, socio-economic worries are replacing worries about Covid-19. Globally, Inflation is emerging as the number one concern.

- Around half of Malaysians unsure or unlikely to continue vaccination
- Vaccines seen as enabler of daily activities
- Focus on health benefits for continued vaccination

In countries across the world, including Malaysia, the majority of the population sense that even with the strictest possible measures, Covid-19 and new variants will still be able to spread.

Both in Malaysia and globally, a large majority of people expect a better 2022 than 2021 was. Malaysians, are more optimistic of a strengthened economy than the global country average

With daily Covid-19 cases gradually subsiding since September, the attention of the public is starting to turn. In November, financial/political corruption is a bigger concern than Covid-19 among Malaysians

Malaysians in all groups recognize that, COVID-19 being a community driven disease, the community is the greater beneficiary of vaccination. There is a need to improve awareness campaigns to inform about individual benefits and its subsequent spillover into community benefits to further boost vaccination intention.

Entering the second year of living with Covid-19, shopping on e-commerce platforms has become a mainstay – almost half of Malaysians have purchased something on an e-commerce platform in the past 6 months

Covid-19 is overshadowing other concerns among Malaysians, and per May 2021 it’s substantially higher than the global country average. Concerns about unemployment and poverty lingers both in Malaysia and elsewhere.

The latest findings from Ipsos find that Malaysians are consistently on the top among the 25 countries surveyed in supporting vaccine passports or similar health certificates to access the country and its public venues