Germany: a giant syringe drawn in the sky

 

By observing the path of planes in the sky last Wednesday, many controllers and aviation enthusiasts must have believed in a hallucination. A 20-year-old amateur pilot, Samy Kramer, had fun drawing a giant syringe using his GPS. The young man planned the route he had to take point by point before taking off in his two-seater machine from Friedrichshafen airport, near Lake Constance.

During its flight of approximately 1 hour 40 minutes, it followed the route of approximately 280 kilometers indicated on its instrument panel, including 90 ° turns, to arrive at a syringe-shaped itinerary visible on the Flightradar site. “I wanted to give citizens food for thought for the day when the vaccine will be available,” explains Samy Kramer, a student in economic engineering, contacted by Agence France-Presse.

A massive vaccination campaign

Germany officially launched its Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Sunday. The first target audiences are people over 80 and hospital staff. In total, Germany is due to receive 1.3 million doses of the vaccine by the end of the year, and then 11 to 13 million doses by the end of March. About 65% of Germans are ready to be vaccinated now or after a period of observation of side effects in other patients, according to a survey by the YouGov institute for the DPA agency.

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