Yeay, Free Ice Cream For Those Who Want To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

Illustration of injection of COVID-9 vaccine. (Antara)

JAKARTA - It's not an easy matter to get people to join the COVID-19 vaccination program. Even though it is free, not everyone is willing to be vaccinated, especially those who are among adults.

There are various ways in which adults are willing to take part in the COVID-19 vaccination program. Starting from vaccinating in public places that are easily accessible to the public to free ice cream.

Yes, this free ice cream giving program aims to increase community participation in the vaccination program. The ice cream given is vanilla chocolate-coated ice cream in one of the luxury shopping centers.

This program is organized by GUM, a top shopping center near Red Square, Moscow, Russia. In this shopping center, there is a COVID-19 vaccination facility with the Sputnik V vaccine.

Providing the capacity for hundreds of COVID-19 vaccines, every day around 200 people are vaccinated here, said a staff member to CNN. Those who queue up for vaccination, get ice cream to accompany the vaccination queue.

Vaccination in public places with various indulgent facilities is intensively carried out in Moscow, Russia. This is due to the slow progress of the vaccination program here. Of the city's more than 12 million residents, fewer than 600,000 are already vaccinated, according to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

Apart from malls with free ice cream, vaccination booths in public spaces or pop-up clinics are also set up at the famous Moscow Depot, through a service that is open during lunch and dinner hours.

For classical music lovers, there is even one clinic inside Helikon, a prestigious Moscow opera house, where loud notes of the tenor, recorded over speakers, are played to accompany those waiting in line for vaccinations.

Some people are getting the message that the vaccine is their best chance of surviving the pandemic. Like Vadim Svistunov (84) and his wife Nonna (86) who went to the opera house for the initial vaccine injection and booster three weeks later.

"We don't want to go there yet. We are in no hurry (to die)," Svistunov told CNN, pointing to the sky.