A young German pilot said on Sunday that he had traced a giant syringe in the air as a way to mark the beginning of the introduction of vaccines in Germany against the coronavirus. Samy Kramer, a 20-year-old amateur pilot, had carefully mapped out the route he had to take in advance to create the effect in the sky over Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The maneuvers included a series of 90-degree turns in flight on Wednesday that lasted an hour and 40 minutes and covered approximately 170 miles.
The syringe could be seen on the flightradar24 website.
“I wanted to give people food for thought before the day the vaccine became available,” Kramer, a student, told AFP on Sunday.
Germany launched its official COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Sunday, but the first shots were given the day before, with a 101-year-old resident of a retirement home becoming the first person in the country to be vaccinated.
In total, Germany will receive 1.3 million doses by the end of this year and 11 to 13 million doses by the end of March.
According to a YouGov poll for the German news agency DPA, about 65 percent of Germans say they are willing to get vaccinated.