Are we moving from a pandemic to an endemic situation in the case of COVID-19? There is still debate on this issue, but there is consensus on the key role that vaccines play in ending the pandemic.

One of the problems is that in many countries, significant segments of the population are reluctant to get vaccinated. In some places, various incentives were established in 2021 to convince the undecided, some of them quite curious, as pointed out by the website gzeromedia, part of the global political consulting firm Eurasia. Here are three of them:

In the Philippine town of San Luis, all those who have been vaccinated enter a monthly raffle where the grand prize is a cow that is delivered to the winner's doorstep by the town mayor himself.

Goldsmiths in the city of Rajkot, in the state of Gujarat, India, joined forces to open a vaccination center that offered a gold nose pin as a reward for women and a hand mixer for men.

The state of Washington, in the US, offered a free marijuana cigarette to anyone over the age of 21 who could prove they had received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine. Washington was the first state to legalize cannabis in 2021.