A young German pilot said on Sunday that he had drawn a huge syringe in the sky as a way to mark the start of the launch of vaccines against Germany. coronavirus. Samy Kramer, a 20-year-old amateur pilot, carefully traced the route he had to take in advance to create the effect of the sky above Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The maneuvers included a 90-degree turn during Wednesday’s flight, which lasted an hour and 40 minutes and traveled about 170 miles.
The syringe could be seen on the flightradar24 website.
“I wanted to give people something to think about the day the vaccine became available,” a Kramer student told AFP on Sunday.
Germany launched its official COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Sunday, but the first shots were actually fired the day before, with a 101-year-old resident of a nursing home becoming the first person in the country to be inoculated.
In total, Germany will receive 1.3 million doses before the end of this year and then 11-13 million doses by the end of March.
About 65% of Germans say they are ready to be vaccinated, according to a YouGov poll for the German news agency DPA.