An online survey of 1,000 people commissioned by The Straits Times and conducted by market research firm Milieu Insight found that 28% of respondents are of the view that life will never return to exactly the way it was before the pandemic.

In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Video editor Olivia Quay and Assistant Professor Hannah Clapham from the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health weigh in on the survey findings.