RESIDENTS IN THE UNITED Kingdom and Spain are the most worried when it comes to COVID-19, while those in South Korea are the least, a new index shows.
The researchers surveyed nearly 7,000 people from 10 countries – United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Mexico, Japan and South Korea – between mid-March and mid-April to create a tool that assesses people’s risk perceptions of the coronavirus pandemic around the world.
“These countries were chosen for their cultural and geographic diversity and to represent countries at different stages of the pandemic, with different government policies,” authors of the study said.