By: CBS News
A young German pilot said Sunday he traced a giant syringe in the sky as a way of marking the start of Germany s roll out of vaccines against the coronavirus. Samy Kramer, a 20-year-old amateur pilot, had carefully plotted out the route he needed to take in advance in order to create the effect in the skies above Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The maneuvers included a number of 90-degree turns during the flight on Wednesday that lasted one hour and 40 minutes and covered around 170 miles.
The syringe could be seen on the flightradar24 website. I wanted to give people food for thought for the day the vaccine became available, Kramer, a student, told AFP on Sunday.
Pilot traces giant syringe in the sky to mark vaccine rollout
The flight track for a D-ENIG plane that traced a syringe [Photo: flightradar24.com/via Reuters]
German pilot Samy Kramer has traced a giant syringe in the sky, flying 200 kilometres to remind people about the start of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Europe.
The 20-year-old pilot mapped out the route he would need to take on a GPS device before taking to the skies near Lake Constance in southern Germany. The syringe-shaped route showed up on internet site flightradar24.
“There are still relatively many people opposing the vaccination and my action may be a reminder for them to think about the topic, to get things moving”, Kramer told
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A resident of a retirement receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine, in Loos, northern France, on December 28, 2020. (Francois Lo Presti/AFP)
Belgium on Monday joined a growing list of countries to launch COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, while a new coronavirus variant believed to be more infectious spread further and other nations ramped up restrictions.
Israel, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted of a “world record” vaccination drive that inoculated 380,000 of its 8.7 million people by Monday, began issuing shots to soldiers at 17 centers nationwide.
While the Israel Defense Forces is “one of the first militaries in the world to launch a vaccination campaign for its soldiers,” it will be “months” before all are protected, doctor Yael Arbel of the army medical corps said.
Pilot Traces Giant Syringe In The Sky To Celebrate Arrival Of Covid Vaccine I wanted to give people food for thought for the day the vaccine became available, Samy Kramer, a student, told AFP on Sunday.
Updated: December 29, 2020 10:01 am IST
A pilot traced a syringe in the sky to mark the arrival of the Covid vaccine in Germany.
A young German pilot said Sunday he traced a giant syringe in the sky as a way of marking the start of Germany s roll out of vaccines against the coronavirus.
Samy Kramer, a 20-year-old amateur pilot, had carefully plotted out the route he needed to take in advance in order to create the effect in the skies above Baden-Wuerttemberg.
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Central African Republic votes under threat of violence
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Central African Republic on Sunday voted in presidential and legislative elections being held under a cloud of violence as the government, international partners and United Nations peacekeepers seek to hold off a rebel advance. Militias hostile to President Faustin-Archange Touadera, who is seeking a second term, have stepped up attacks since the constitutional court this month rejected several candidates, including former President Francois Bozize.