Filenews 5 March 2021
Confidence in vaccines against COVID-19 is growing, with people's willingness to get vaccinated growing as concerns about side effects are removed, research in 14 countries and in Britain shows, the results of which were released today.
This survey by the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) of Imperial College London and polling firm YouGov showed that confidence in COVID-19 vaccines increased in 9 of the 14 countries surveyed, including France, Japan and Singapore, where confidence was previously low.
Willing to vaccinate people
As far as Britain is concerned, this recent survey, carried out from 8 to 21 February, showed that people in the UK are the most willing to be vaccinated, with 77% saying they would have the COVID-19 vaccine if they had one available to them that week.
This was up from 55% in November, just before the first COVID-19 vaccine, that of Pfizer/BioNTech, was licensed by UK regulators for use in Britain.
What the survey shows for other countries
At the same time people in France, Singapore and Japan remained among the least willing to have a COVID-19 vaccine at respective rates of 40%, 48% and 48%, but all three countries saw increasing public confidence in vaccination against the disease caused by the new coronavirus since November, when only 25%, 36% and 39% respectively of their citizens tested positive for vaccination.
This research also shows that concerns about side effects from vaccines have been removed in the majority of countries, with less than half (45%) of those surveyed saying they will not be treated. of all those surveyed to report now that they are concerned.
Again the biggest concern about side effects was expressed by people in France, Singapore and Japan, with around 6 in 10 feeling worried (56%, 59%, 61% respectively), while Britons were the least concerned.
This most recent survey was conducted on more than 13,500 people in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Britain.
Source: RES-BE
