$1.4 Million Apartment, Tesla, Gold Bars - Vaccine Giveaways Get Flashier
Updated: July 26, 2021 9:43 am IST
When the Covid vaccination rollout started, the biggest material prize was an Instagramable sticker. Now in Hong Kong, you could potentially score a Tesla or even an apartment in the world s most-expensive housing market.
With gold bars, a diamond Rolex and a $100,000 shopping spree also up for grabs, Hong Kong s vaccine lotteries are easily the flashiest. Yet it s far from the only location rolling out eye-catching incentives to try and boost flagging vaccination rates. Russia s giving away snowmobiles. West Virginians can score lifetime hunting licenses and custom rifles. In Alabama, people who are vaccinated got offered a chance to drive on a speedway track.
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Hong Kong Dispatch
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Bored and trapped in an area one-third the size of Rhode Island, Hong Kongers have sought out the most far-flung corners of their city, mobbing parklands with crowds typically seen downtown.
Hikers on Lion Rock in Hong Kong in January.Credit.
March 6, 2021
HONG KONG Of all the problems created by the pandemic, Sisi Wong did not expect that finding parking would be one of them.
Travel to Hong Kong was cut off. Residents were urged to stay home. And besides, Ms. Wong lived in a remote northern pocket of the territory, where rolling hills outnumbered skyscrapers and few visitors ventured even in normal times.