Austria creates Covid lottery with €500 prizes to woo vaccine hesitant
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#5V7RK)
Carrot-and-stick approach includes vaccine mandate and lottery tickets for fully inoculated
Austria has announced plans to give Covid-19 vaccine recipients an almost one-in-three chance to win a 500 (415) gift voucher while MPs voted to fine those who decline it, as the Alpine republic implements its carrot and stick" strategy for overcoming reluctance to take the jab.
The conservative-green coalition government of chancellor Karl Nehammer on Thursday morning unveiled what it called its vaccination lottery" programme, which will run from 15 March until the end of the year and cost the government approximately 1.4bn.
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