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First vaccination lottery starts in Germany - main prize of 1.15 million euros possible

2021-08-25T20:31:17.732Z


Millions in profits, cars and vacation trips: In countries like the USA, the vaccination lottery is already booming. Now the first raffle for vaccinated people has started in Germany as well. The main prize is over a million.


Millions in profits, cars and vacation trips: In countries like the USA, the vaccination lottery is already booming.

Now the first raffle for vaccinated people has started in Germany as well.

The main prize is over a million.

Hamburg - millions in profits for the corona vaccination?

So far, this has mainly happened abroad.

The USA, Russia and China, among others, are betting on various profits to get people to vaccinate.

Now the time has apparently come to that in Germany as well.

The online lottery provider Lotto24 announced that it is giving away millions in prizes to those vaccinated.

Criticism comes from addiction researchers.

Vaccination lottery in Germany: up to 1.15 million euros for the spades

1.15 million euros: That's how high the first price in Germany's first vaccination lottery is. "With the main prize of the social lottery freiheit + a monthly payment of 5,000 euros for 15 years and an instant win of 250,000 euros beckon", according to the lottery.

Lotto24

wants to

distribute a

total of

two million free tips. The game is not played 6 out of 49, but 7 out of 35. According to the organizer, the chance of winning the main prize should be 21 times higher than with the usual 6 out of 49. A free tip means a free field. Further fields that increase the chances of winning can be bought, according to

Lotto24.

Any adult who has been vaccinated at least once by September 30th can participate.

People who cannot be vaccinated against the coronavirus also have the opportunity to participate.

“Every vaccination is already a gain, because it brings us a lot closer to everyday life without the restrictions caused by the pandemic.

We want to do our part to ensure that every vaccination pays off even more - with a bit of luck even in cash, ”says

Lotto24.

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Mobile vaccination buses should facilitate vaccination offers.

Now Germany also has its first vaccination lottery.

© Martin Dziadek / Imago

Vaccination lottery in Germany: Addiction experts are critical - but the risk is probably low

The drug commissioner of the federal government, Daniela Ludwig, is critical of the action: “Vaccination is our way out of the pandemic, no question about it.

But now I think it is difficult to offer anything that is possible as an incentive for the spades. ”She prefers persuasion and low-threshold vaccination offers, the politician told the Funke newspapers.

Addiction experts, such as Verena Küpperbusch, addiction expert for gambling addiction in North Rhine-Westphalia, are also skeptical.

"I find it questionable if an offer with a certain addictive potential is linked to the vaccination," she told the Funke media group.

You still consider the risk of addiction to be low.

The target group of the vaccination lottery is currently primarily young people.

Older people in particular are considered to be at risk of addiction at Lotto.

“The risk of addiction with a one-time bye and one draw per week is to be classified as low.

Nobody will become addicted to the vaccination lottery as a result, ”says Tobias Hayer, an addiction researcher from Bremen.

The USA as a role model in the vaccination lottery: with joints, scholarships and vaccination millions in prizes

In other countries, such as the USA, the vaccination lottery has been a popular incentive for some time to drive up the vaccination quota. The profits are quite creative. However, the most popular still seem to be the money prices. For example, residents of the state of Ohio were able to win one million euros a week in a lottery. In New York, winnings of up to five million dollars were at stake. In the meantime, the city has switched to directing the prices to parents of 12 to 17 year olds. If you vaccinate your child, you can win one of 50 full college or university scholarships in the state.

West Virginia went one better when it came to the selection of prizes.

Here, those willing to vaccinate could win pick-up vehicles, five fishing and hunting licenses for life and ten hunting rifles.

Money and scholarship winnings also went into the lottery pot.

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In the US, residents came up with very creative vaccination incentives.

Activists in New York, like here, distributed joints to vaccinated people.

© Mark Lennihan / dpa

In the past, private companies and companies also repeatedly held lottery campaigns. Vaccinated persons were able to win 100 one-week cruises in the Caribbean or Europe with the pharmacy chain CVS. Activists in New York insisted on distributing joints to the vaccinated. And Amazon also initially started an internal lottery with car, travel and cash vouchers. In the meantime, however, many American companies have introduced compulsory vaccinations for their employees. So recently the US Army.

The USA and Germany are by no means alone with the vaccination lottery. Russia, China, Israel, India or even Australia: They all have a wide variety of raffles going on.

Hong Kong is even auctioning a brand new apartment in the economic metropolis, whose housing market is one of the most expensive in the world.

The one-room apartment is worth the equivalent of around 1.14 million euros.

(chd / AFP)

List of rubric lists: © Martin Dziadek / Imago

Source: merkur

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