FRANKFURT – German pilot Samy Kramer watched a huge syringe in the sky, flying 200 kilometers to remind people of the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Europe.
The 20-year-old pilot traced the route he should follow with a GPS device before heading to the sky near Lake Constance in southern Germany. The syringe-shaped route appeared on the flightradar24 website.
“There are still a relatively large number of people who oppose vaccination, and my action may remind them to think about the subject, to get things moving,” Kramer told Reuters TV on Sunday, adding that his flight should not be understood as a direct call. be inoculated.
“Maybe it was also a sign of joy, because the aviation industry was hit quite hard by the pandemic,” Kramer said.
Germany officially launched the COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Sunday. The federal government plans to distribute more than 1.3 million doses of vaccine to local health authorities by the end of this year and about 700,000 a week since January.