Filipinos are willing to comply with COVID-19 contact-tracing efforts which are crucial to mitigate the spread of the virus, results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey show. The proportions of Filipinos willing to cooperate are higher than that of Americans, based on the same survey conducted by Axios/Ipsos in the United States from May 15 to May 18. The SWS used a sampling margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percent for national percentages, plus-or-minus 6 percent for Metro Manila, the Visayas and Mindanao, and plus-or-minus 5 percent for Luzon outside Metro Manila. In all areas, most Filipinos are willing to comply with the contact-tracing efforts with the Visayas having the highest percentage of those willing to self-quarantine at 98 percent. It was followed by Luzon outside Metro Manila and Mindanao at both 97 percent, and Metro Manila at 93 percent.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 30, 2020 21:22 UTC