According to a new Ifop survey, the French are much more worried about the health risk linked to the Covid-19 epidemic than the economic risk generated by the spread of the virus.
On August 16, a new Ifop poll published in Sunday Newspaper shows that the French are much more worried about the health risk linked to the coronavirus than the economic risk generated by the spread of the disease in France. They are 52% to trust the government for "help companies in difficulty because of the coronavirus " and 41% trust him to "cope effectively" to the spread of the virus. Figures that have hardly changed since the last survey carried out at the end of May.
"The health risk to (their) health and that of (their) relatives"is what worries the French the most (53%) ahead"the economic risk and in particular the consequences on employment " for them and their relatives (29%), then "the risk for public freedoms with the obligations to fight against the epidemic (wearing of the compulsory mask, restriction of access to certain places)", at 18%.
87% of French people surveyed say they are worried about the economic consequences of the health crisis due to the spread of the coronavirus, while 73% are for themselves and their families.
The virus continues to progress in France. Yesterday, Saturday August 15, more than 3,300 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the last 24 hours, according to figures from Public Health France. This is a record since the start of deconfinement last May. To avoid as much as possible an uncontrollable second wave, the government is tightening up health rules, in particular by imposing the wearing of masks outside but also within companies. New rules should soon be announced for a more serene return to school because the executive wishes to avoid re-containment at all costs. "All we do is not get to containment", recently affirmed Olivier Véran, Minister of Health. The French are more and more in favor of the general wearing of masks in order to be "masked"but to stay "free".
If the total or partial reconfinement of the French population remains hypothetical for the moment, the Covid-19 Scientific Council judges "highly likely that a second epidemic wave will be observed next fall or winter".