Neither skull nor dragon, let alone a heart pierced with an arrow: a 22-year-old Italian student has decided to have the QR code tattooed on his arm proving that he is vaccinated against Covid.
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At the entrance of a restaurant or a cinema, it should therefore now suffice for Andrea Colonnetta, living in Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy, to roll up her sleeve to show the tattoo on the back of his left arm. "
It's pretty original, I like being different,
" he commented for Corriere della Calabria after his photos on Instagram and TikTok made him a little local celebrity.
His parents, explained the young man, had a less enthusiastic reaction.
"
They encouraged me ... to be less impulsive and to think a little more before acting,
" he explained.
A video posted to TikTok by his tattoo artist Gabriele Pellerone shows the student getting ready to walk into a McDonald's and raising his arm to take a photo of his tattoo.
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We then see the guard at the entrance of the fast food restaurant scanning the photo, but the video ends abruptly, without knowing if this unusual vademecum will have finally allowed Andrea to buy her Big Mac or not.
