New Delhi, May 16 : As many as 48-66 per cent of people belonging to rural areas, and various educational, social, income and age groups have expressed hope that lives would return to the normal track at the end of the Covid-19 outbreak, according to the latest IANS-CVoter Covid tracker survey. As per the survey, 48.3 per cent people staying in the rural areas said they are 'very hopeful' that their own as well as their family members' lives will return to the normal track as and when the dreaded virus goes away, while 38 per cent said they are 'somewhat hopeful' and 7.1 per cent said they are 'not too hopeful'. The numbers went up in the semi-urban areas where 56.5 per cent said they are 'very hopeful', 25.1 per cent 'somewhat hopeful' and 7.4 per cent 'not too hopeful'. In the urban areas, 58.6 per cent people said they are 'very hopeful' that their lives will come back on track after the outbreak, while 25.9 per cent said they are 'somewhat hopeful' and only 2.4 per cent said they are 'not too hopeful'. Higher education group with 66.1 per cent people are very hopeful about normal lives, followed by 56.2 per cent middle education sector and 55.4 per cent lower education sector. Similarly, 63.4 per cent of people in the higher income groups said they are 'very hopeful' about normalcy returning post Covid-19, followed by 58.6 per cent in the middle income groups and 54 per cent in the lower income groups. Among social groups, 67.5 per cent Christians said they are 'very hopeful', followed by 61.5 per cent Sikhs, 61.1 per cent Muslims, 59.1 per cent Scheduled Tribes (STs), 58.5 per cent Upper Caste Hindus (UCH), 55.4 per cent Other Backward Classes (OBC), 51.7 per cent Scheduled Caste and 54.5 per cent belonging to the other category. In the eastern part of the country, 60 per cent people said they are 'very hopeful' about normal lives post the pandemic, followed by 58.5 per cent in the north, 57.8 per cent in the west and 51.1 per cent in the south. Despite the pandemic hurting the old-age people the most, 60.5 per cent of those above the age of 60 years sounded 'very hopeful' that their lives will return to normal track, followed by 58.9 per cent in the middle-aged category (45-60 years), 55.3 per cent in the young age category (25-45 years) and 56.9 per cent in the fresher category (below 25 years). Gender wise, 58.6 per cent of males and 55.2 per cent of females said they are 'very hopeful' of normalcy returning post Covid-19. /IANS