VACCINE REFUSENIKS WHO COULD SABOTAGE WORLD PROGRAMME

BRITONS, according to surveys, are much more likely to agree to a jab than people in other countries. In France, anti-vaccine sentiment is one of the world’s highest – with a third of respondents not believing vaccines are safe. This has been compounded by the ineptness of officials, which meant that France had inoculated only 352 people by January 4 compared with more than a million in both the UK and Israel. A report by the Edelman Trust Barometer has suggested that 66 per cent of Britons are happy to be vaccinated. Other figures: Italy 65 per cent willing, Germany 62, United States 59, Spain 58, Japan 54, France 52 and Russia 40.