A new international survey of nearly 19,000 people conducted by the polling company YouGov, found that the public became more wary of shots made in China or Russia than those developed in Germany or the United States.

The overall results were shared exclusively with Reuters and showed that 73% of Britons and 70% of Danes with the most willing to take the cave in 19 vaccine when it becomes available to them.

Conversely, more than a third of people surveyed in Poland on almost half of those in France 37% and 48% respectively, said that they would say no to the shot if offered it.

In the United States, just less than half of those polled said they would be willing tohave the vaccine.

The survey also asked about views on compulsory vaccines, a policy being discussed by some governments to boost the population's immunity.

It was most popular in India at 77% but only backed by 29% of Americans.

Previous studies have found that conspiracy theories and misinformation fuels mistrust raises concerns of not enough overall uptake to fully protect communities from the disease.

Friday's YouGov poll found that despite many who said that they would not take the cove in 19 vaccine now, most gave their reasons, preferring toe wait and see, showing that relatively few were driven by entrenched anti vax their views.