Are we moving from pandemic to endemic in the case of Covid? There is still debate about this, but what there is consensus on is the key role of vaccines in the pathway out of the pandemic.

One of the problems is that in many countries there are significant sectors of the population that are reluctant to be vaccinated. In some places, various incentives were put in place in 2021 to convince the undecided, some quite curious, such as those pointed out by the website gzeromedia, part of the global political consultancy Eurasia. Here are three of them:

In the Philippine town of San Luis, all those vaccinated are entered into a monthly lottery where the grand prize is a cow that is delivered to the door of the winner's house by the local mayor personally.

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

The state of Washington, in the US, offered a free marijuana cigarette to everyone 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.