Cow raffle in Pampanga town to encourage vaccination

To increase vaccine confidence among residents, a town in Pampanga started a raffle among those who received COVID-19 jabs, and the winner will get a cow.

According to Mark Salazar's "24 Oras" report, San Luis, Pampanga government held a monthly cow raffle  in hopes of reaching herd immunity in their locality.

"We all know that many are still hesitant to get vaccinated against COVID-19, so  what we did was, the municipal mayor will organize a raffle every end of the month, and the prize is a cow. A cow is worth P30,000," Adee Taruc, public information office chief of San Luis, said, in Filipino.

In San Luis, Pampanga, it aims to vaccinate 40,000 to 50,000 members of the A1 to A3 category.

However, the municipality receives only 300 to 700 doses weekly from the national government. With this, the city has only vaccinated 1,400 members of the priority group.

Despite this slow vaccine deployment, Taruc said their local government is "still thankful."

In Barangay Sucat, Muntinlupa, the city government also began a raffle which gives vaccine recipients a chance to win sacks of rice.

Meanwhile, Guagua, Pampanga distributed free packs of vegetables to 600 senior citizens, who got injected with COVID-19 vaccines, to increase confidence in the doses

Vegetables were bought from La Trinidad, Benguet  at half the market price. Trucking fee to bring the goods to Pampanga was also free.—Consuelo Marquez/LDF, GMA News