A pilot in Germany had a little fun during a recent flight to honor the start of the coronavirus vaccination campaign in Europe on Sunday.
Samy Kramer, 20, mapped the route he would need to follow to trace a giant 70-kilometer syringe in the sky. Using a Diamond DA-20 Katana, he flew about 200 kilometers near Lake Constance in southern Germany, about 5,000 feet in the air to remind people of the start of the COVID-19 campaign.
“There are still relatively many people opposing vaccination and my action can be a reminder for them to think about it, to get things moving,” Kramer told Reuters TV on Sunday.
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He said his flight should be considered a direct call to be vaccinated, but rather a “sign of joy, because the aviation industry has been hit hard by the pandemic”.
The syringe route appeared on the website flightradar24.
A pilot in Germany traced a giant syringe in the air.
(flightradar24)
The European Union started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Sunday.
The 27-nation bloc staged a coordinated launch aimed at projecting a unified message that shooting was safe and Europe’s best chance of getting out of the pandemic.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called the vaccine, which was developed in record time, a “game changer”.
“We know that today is not the end of the pandemic, but it is the beginning of victory,” he said.
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The vaccine developed by BioNTech in Germany and the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer began arriving in super-cold containers at EU hospitals on Friday from a factory in Belgium. Each country was receiving only a fraction of the required doses – less than 10,000 in the first batches for some countries – with the largest release expected in January, when more vaccines are available. All those who take injections on Sunday must return for a second dose in three weeks.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.