China's response to Covid-19 better than US', global poll finds

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Far more people around the world think China has responded well to the Covid-19 pandemic than those who think the United States has done a good job, a poll by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation showed.

The survey of more than 120,000 people from 53 countries by the think tank and German polling data firm Dalia Research found that even in democratic countries, 45 per cent of people thought their governments had limited too many freedoms during the pandemic.

More than 60pc of people surveyed thought China had responded well to the pandemic, while only a third around the world thought the US response had been effective.

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