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Hong Kong companies cajole staff to get jabs with cash and holidays

Low inoculation rates due to vaccine hesitancy threaten city’s economic recovery

Businesses desperate for Hong Kong to reopen are offering staff cash, extra holidays and even lottery winnings to get inoculated in the face of widespread vaccine hesitancy.

Some companies are taking an even firmer approach and threatening workers with dismissal if they do not get the jab.

Just 20 per cent of Hong Kong’s residents have had their first shot since the inoculation campaign began in February, compared with 50 per cent in the US and 57 per cent in the UK. Analysts blame vaccine hesitancy on distrust in the government as well as low infection rates.

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