Health workers walk along an alley where children are seen using their mobile phones, during a house to house vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Manila, Philippines, on May 26, 2021. - Reuters
MANILA, May 27 (AFP): The mayor of a rural town in the Philippines has come up with a bovine solution for Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in his farming community -- a cow raffle.
Starting in July, anyone who gets a shot in San Luis in the northern province of Pampanga will go into a monthly draw for a cow worth about 30,000 pesos (US$624), Mayor Jayson Sagum told AFP.
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