{"id":21038,"date":"2020-04-20T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=21038"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:06:32","slug":"yougovs-international-covid-19-tracker-reveals-changing-global-attitudes-towards-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/yougovs-international-covid-19-tracker-reveals-changing-global-attitudes-towards-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"YouGov’s International COVID-19 Tracker Reveals Changing Global Attitudes Towards The Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest changes in fear levels this week in\u00a0YouGov’s 26-market COVID-19 tracker<\/a>\u00a0were in Canada and Denmark. Both nations saw a 9-point drop in the number of people saying they are very or fairly scared they will catch the disease, from 69% to 60% in Canada and from 53% to 44% in Denmark.<\/p>\n

Figures are largely stable elsewhere. The largest increase in fear levels occurred in Sweden, rising from 47% to 53%.<\/p>\n

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Most notable behaviour changes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most dramatic behavioural shift since the previous week took place in Singapore, where the proportion of people donning face masks in public skyrocketed from 37% to 73%. The previous week’s 37% had already been an all-time high, with the public of the island nation now in line with the rest of Asia when it comes to covering their faces.<\/p>\n

There were also substantial increases in face mask usage in the UAE (up 25pts to 79%), the USA (up 20pts to 49%) and Mexico (up 11pts to 59%).<\/p>\n

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Several countries say noticeable differences in the numbers of people avoiding going to work compared with last week. There were sizeable increases in Singapore (up 16pts to 47%), the UAE (also up 16pts, to 49%), and Saudi Arabia (up 11pts to 54%). Meanwhile in Finland the proportion of people avoiding the office fell 12pts to 18%.<\/p>\n

The other most notable changes took place in Scandinavia. The proportion of Danes not eating raw meat fell 12pts to 7%, while the number avoiding touching public objects like lift buttons fell 12pts to 47%. The number of Norwegians avoiding tourists has fallen 13pts to 37%, and the level refraining from touching objects in public is down 11pts to 63%. The number of Finns improving their personal hygiene also fell 10pts to 72%.<\/p>\n

How well have governments been handling the crisis?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our tracker looking at how countries feel their government is handling the crisis find approval rates lowest in Spain (38%), France (38%) and Japan (39%). It is worth noting, however, that this Japanese figure is up 8pts since last week, whereas the French and Spanish figures have changed less.<\/p>\n

These are the only three countries in which the proportion of people who think the government is doing a good job is lower than the number thinking it is doing a bad job, although public opinion in Mexico (48% well, 47% badly) and the USA (49% well, 45% badly) is closely split.<\/p>\n

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Everywhere else satisfaction far outweighs dissatisfaction. The most impressed are the people of Vietnam (95%) and India (92%), being the most likely to say their government is handling the crisis well.<\/p>\n

Outside of Asia, the highest approval rates are in Australia (82%), Denmark (81%) and Norway (also 81%).<\/p>\n

YouGov’s international COVID-19 tracker will be running for the foreseeable future, interviewing more than 27,000 people a week across 26 markets, and with more still to come.<\/em><\/p>\n

The following tracker results form part of a larger survey series looking at the impact of COVID-19 on everything from brands to politics. For more information on this research and how COVID-19 might affect your business\u00a0click here<\/a>. You can also see the results of further COVID-19 research in the\u00a0UK<\/a>,\u00a0USA<\/a>,\u00a0France<\/a>,\u00a0Germany<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0APAC<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The biggest changes in fear levels this week in\u00a0YouGov’s 26-market COVID-19 tracker\u00a0were in Canada and Denmark. Both nations saw a 9-point drop in the number of people saying they are very or fairly scared they will catch the disease, from 69% to 60% in Canada and from 53% to 44% in Denmark. Figures are largely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21042,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions\/21042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}