According to THE STRAITS TIMES, the mayor of a farming town an hour's drive north of Manila is promising to raffle a cow each month, starting September, to get his constituents to take shots of the vaccines from China or Russia. His town, with its small population and few cases, is not expecting to get the vaccine till September.
One of the cities that make up Metro Manila is offering 25kg of rice in a weekly raffle for those already vaccinated.
Other cities are hiring motorized rickshaw drivers to give those willing to get jabbed free rides, or deploying "vaccine buses" to get to poorer, less accessible districts.
THE STRAITS TIMES mentions, a mayor in a small town in Ilocos Sur province, 230km north of Manila, is giving away a plot of land with a house in a raffle he has scheduled for December, when he hopes enough vaccine doses will finally reach his corner of the country.
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A lawmaker, whose family is a big property developer and one of the country's wealthiest, is offering a house-and-plot bonanza and topping that off with two motorcycles and 50 livelihood packages worth 50,000 pesos each.
Malls that have been providing space for the vaccine roll-out have been offering banana fritters and free parking.
Some restaurants, including McDonald's, are offering discounts to those with proof of vaccination.
THE STRAITS TIMES says, with 30 million vaccine doses expected to arrive in the next three months, the government is set to allow other groups - migrant workers, those working at restaurants, supermarkets and other retail outlets, journalists and the poor - to line up for shots.
Hesitancy is strongest among the poor, who make up the bulk of those who will soon be eligible for vaccines.
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These are the groups expected to respond well to vaccine enticements.
"We're not bribing them. It's just marketing," said Mr Harry Roque, President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman.
