Strong movements! The pilot flies in the form of a SYRINGE over Germany to celebrate the launch of Covid vaccines throughout Europe
- Samy Kramer said he hoped the trick was a fun way to raise awareness
- The flight took off on Wednesday over the German city of Friedrichscafen
- Germany began vaccinating vulnerable residents on Saturday, and most other EU countries on Sunday
A pilot has traced the image of a syringe in the sky over Germany to celebrate the launch of coronavirus vaccination campaigns across Europe.
Samy Kramer said he hoped the trick was “a fun and unconventional way to raise awareness.”
Most European Union countries began inoculating vulnerable people on Sunday, while Hungary, Slovakia and Germany started a day earlier.
Kramer took to the skies Wednesday in a Diamond DA20 single-engine aircraft.
FlightRadar24.com flight tracking data showed the small plane tracing the image of a syringe over Friedrichshafen, a German city 126 km (78 miles) from Stuttgart.
“It was to set a kind of reminder for people and raise awareness that the vaccine will be available,” Kramer told Reuters news agency.
A pilot has traced the image of a syringe in the sky over Germany to celebrate the launch of coronavirus vaccination campaigns across Europe. Pictured: the syringe-shaped flight path seen on FlightRadar24.com
Pilot Samy Kramer appears in the cockpit of the plane while flying over Friedrichshafen, a German city 126 km (78 miles) from Stuttgart.
Kramer took to the skies on Wednesday with a small white and blue Diamond DA20 monotic plane in the photo
Kramer’s flight came just days before Germany and other European countries began vaccinating residents vulnerable to coronavirus.
The campaign was due to start on Sunday, but Germany began vaccinating residents at a nursing home in Halberstadt, in the Harz mountain range, on Saturday.
“Every day we look forward to is one day too many,” said Tobias Krueger, an operator at the nursing home.
The first person to be immunized with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was Edith Kwoizalla, 101, the dpa news agency reported.
Krueger said 40 of the 59 residents of the home wanted the vaccine against 10 of about 40 workers.
Karen Sievers, 84 (left), is inoculated on Sunday with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by Dr. Dirk Heinrich at a retirement home in Hamburg on Sunday
A man received the vaccine on Sunday at a nursing home in Bad Windsheim, Germany, as part of the European launch
He was one of the immunized, but added, “I also understand the concerns.”
Mass vaccination across the European Union, home to nearly 450 million people, would be a crucial step in ending a pandemic that has killed more than 1.7 million worldwide, paralyzed economies and destroyed businesses. and jobs.
The launch gives hope to some of the most affected countries in the world. At least 16 million cases of coronavirus have been reported across the EU, with more than 360,000 deaths.
It occurs when cases of the new variant of coronavirus first detected in the UK have been reported in France, Spain and Sweden.