Covid 19 coronavirus: How will China vaccinate 560 million people? Start with free ice cream
8 Apr, 2021 02:52 AM
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A McDonald s ice cream truck outside a vaccination centre in Beijing offered a two-for-one promotion for those getting inoculated. Photo / Gilles Sabrié, The New York Times
A McDonald s ice cream truck outside a vaccination centre in Beijing offered a two-for-one promotion for those getting inoculated. Photo / Gilles Sabrié, The New York Times
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By: Vivian Wang and Keith Bradsher
China s Covid-19 vaccination campaign got off to a slow start. It is now trying to catch up, through a mixture of freebies and the occasional threat.
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Beijing: In Beijing, the vaccinated qualify for buy-one-get-one-free ice cream cones. In northern Gansu province, a county government published a 20-stanza poem extolling the virtues of the jab. In the southern town of Wancheng, officials warned parents that if they refused to get vaccinated, their childrenâs schooling and future employment and housing were all at risk.
China is deploying a medley of tactics, some tantalising and some threatening, to achieve mass vaccination on a staggering scale: a goal of 560 million people, or 40 per cent of its population, by the end of June.