Members of the public are being offered gifts and discounts to encourage vaccine take-up
There isn’t much to like about having a needle stuck into your arm, so to encourage vaccinations, some countries are offering incentives to sweeten the deal. In one Indian city, residents are being offered a gold nose pin or a stick blender if they get a shot, while in China, not one but two boxes of eggs await responsible citizens.
“The eggs don’t matter,” one Beijing resident – a woman in her 60s – told the South China Morning Post. She was queueing for her vaccination because authorities kept asking her to get the vaccine, not for the protein.
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