This is when Evening News readers think life will return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic

Our lockdown survey, published on the Evening News website as well as 150 others across the UK last week, asked readers 25 questions about how the coronavirus crisis has shaped the lives, opinions and habits of people in Edinburgh and the Lothians - and what they’d like to see happen in the coming weeks and months.

One of the questions in the survey focused on what comes next - asking readers when they think everyday life will return to some kind of normality.

Today we can reveal how readers in and around the Capital answered.

The majority of readers - 37.8 per cent - said they thought it would take 1-2 years for everyday life to return to normal, with readers who thought it would take at least six years in the minority - 0.6 per cent.

On a national level, 39.4 per cent of respondents said they thought it would take 1-2 years for everyday life to return to normality, while 34.2 per cent were more optimistic, saying it would take 6-12 months for this to happen.

Just 8.4 per cent think this will happen in 3-5 months, and only a tiny percentage of respondents - 5.9 per cent - think it’ll take between 3-5 years, while 8.54 per cent said that they think things will not return to normal.

When asked what they thought the likely outcomes of the coronavirus outbreak would be, the majority (57.4 per cent) of readers in Edinburgh and the Lothians said they thought society would place greater value on key workers.

Other likely outcomes were greater funding for the NHS and communities coming closer together, which 54.97 per cent and 34.2 per cent of readers thought would happen respectively.

The least popular option was the country coming closer together, which just 11.5 per cent of readers in Edinburgh and the Lothians thought would be a likely outcome.

On a national level, a high number of respondents - 58.9 per cent - think greater funding for the NHS will be a likely outcome, followed closely by society placing greater value on key workers, which 56.6 per cent of respondents thought would happen post-pandemic.

Even the least popular option - “the country coming closer together” - was seen as a likely outcome by 18.8 per cent of respondents.