Chinese workers sit in an observation area after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine shot at a mass vaccination centre for Chaoyang District on January 15 2021 in Beijing, China. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/KEVIN FRAYER
The survey, conducted by the polling company YouGov and shared exclusively with Reuters, found Britons and Danes were the most willing to take the Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them, while the French and Poles were more likely to be hesitant.
Confidence among populations about vaccines will be a key factor in governments’ efforts to curb the rate of infections in the year-long SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 92-million people worldwide and killed at least 1.98-million. Friday’s YouGov poll found that, while sizeable minorities in many countries said they would not take the Covid-19 vaccine now, most gave their reason as preferring to wait and see if the vaccines were safe, and few were driven by entrenched “anti-vaxxer” views.
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