Lucky jab9 Jun 2021 20:52
Only 15.1 percent of Hong Kong's 7.5 million people have received both injections of covid-19, according to Bloomberg News. As a result, the region is far behind other financial centers such as London and Singapore, and improving levels in Hong Kong is considered necessary by many entrepreneurs as this could speed up the process of gaining immunity.
Authorities in Hong Kong are now increasingly targeting local businesses to gain momentum in the rollout of the vaccine, which has been sluggish as many Hong Kong residents have worried about possible side effects or lack of confidence in the Beijing-backed government. Last month, the government announced a campaign to speed up vaccinations until September, with justifications such as paid holidays for vaccinated civil servants and any further restrictions for non-vaccinated residents.
The lures from the region's companies have been more striking. Li Ka-shing's company CK Group announced on Tuesday that it will raffle off gift cards for 20 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately 21 million kronor) to those who have received both of their syringes. At the same time, the company New World Development announced that it will donate 10 million Hong Kong dollars in support of low-income recipients who have been vaccinated.
Hong Kong's largest real estate company Sun Hung Kai Properties offered prices such as iPhones, while competing Henderson Land Development donated gold bars to the vaccinated.
The industrial property company Goodman Group has organized a lottery with prizes for over 1 million Hong Kong dollars for the vaccinated and among the prizes is a Tesla Model 3, according to the company.
Perhaps most generous were the Ng Teng Fond Charitable Foundation and Chinese Estate Holdings, which will donate an apartment worth 1.4 million Hong Kong dollars at the highest price to a vaccinated resident.
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