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   A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down at a bakery in the western German town of Dortmund, which is celebrating the year of the coronavirus vaccine with syringe-shaped cakes. With vaccination now under way in most of the world, public health officials fret that nervousness about new medicines will slow the uptake of vaccines designed to end a pandemic that has claimed some 2 million lives and devastated the global economy. Schuerener Backparadies bakery's syringe-shaped cakes are drool worthy. Let us take a look at some of irresistible pictures:

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   It is not the first time Schuerner's Baking Paradise has sold coronavirus spin-offs: last year, as household essentials vanished from supermarket shelves in panic buying, they created cakes shaped like newly-scarce toilet-rolls. (Reuters Photo)

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   Owner Tim Kortuem initially worried that baking up a tasty syringe would be a step too far. (Reuters Photo)

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   First we were a bit sceptical whether it would be a bit too macabre. But then we did it after all. Because even for anti-vaxxers it's funny, said Kortuem. (Reuters Photo)

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   Kortuem also said it is a vaccine without any side effects. And you can come back and get another one because it is so yummy. (Reuters Photo)

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   There is no evidence that this cake, flavoured with marzipan, will do anything to protect buyers from the coronavirus. (Reuters Photo)

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   Indeed, given the correlation between excess weight and serious cases of the disease, it may do just the opposite. (Reuters Photo)

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   Nobody eats cakes for health reasons. Tim Kortuem hopefull for this yummy syringe cakes. (Reuters Photo)

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   These syringe cakes celebrating coronavirus vaccine drive is a perfect farewell to COVID-19. (Reuters Photo)

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    Cakes in the shape of syringes are seen at the Schuerener Backparadies bakery, as the vaccination rollout against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Dortmund, Germany. (Reuters Photo)