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Covid-19: Europeans critical of their leaders

12/18/2020, 3:52:47 PM


SURVEY - Six in ten Europeans believe that their governments should have taken more action to avoid the second wave.

While the overall situation has evolved in many ways since March - better knowledge of the virus, masks galore, imminent vaccination campaigns - the second wave of Covid-19 is causing as much concern as the first among Europeans, a survey reveals YouGov produced in nine countries (United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Sweden and France) for the group of European newspapers to which

Le Figaro

belongs

.

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Fear of the disease itself and its consequences on health is the number one concern for 49% of Europeans surveyed.

The French stand out as those who are least afraid of it (43%), like the British (44%), when nearly six in ten Swedes express their concern.

More specifically, the Spaniards, who were severely affected by the pandemic very early on, fear the most of losing a family member or loved one (54%), against 41% of Europeans and 45% for the French.

This fear has a lot

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