German medical workers wait at tents in front of a residential complex to carry out Covid-19 tests in Grevenbroich last month.
Overall, 67% of the 13,200-plus people interviewed between April 15 and April 23 agreed with the statement: “The government’s highest priority should be saving as many lives as possible even if it means the economy will recover more slowly.” Some 76% of Japanese respondents agreed public health should be prioritised over the economy against just 56% in China, where the outbreak was first detected late last year. China now has only a handful of new cases a day, after imposing a strict lockdown earlier.
“But people are saying, ‘We’ve already had six to seven weeks of this , what’s another week or two?'”
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