Marina Artusa
09/07/2021 10:21
Clarín.com
World
Updated 09/07/2021 10:21
The pandemic turned the coronavirus vaccination QR code into an
almost indispensable
certificate
among Europeans that competes in importance with the DNI or DNA to certify the identity of a person.
That is why there are those who have already thought about
how to perpetuate
that little square of hieroglyphs that is synonymous with having received the complete vaccination schedule against Covid, a passport towards the longed-for immunity against the virus that, in Europe, infected almost 60 million people so far .
In Italy, a 22-year-old economics student
got his QR code tattooed
on his left arm.
“That's how I always carry it with me.
I tried it and it
works,
”said Andrea Colonnetta, the boy from Reggio Calabria, when he left the McDonalds where he entered with his tattoo artist, Gabriele Pellerone, to see if the reader of the vaccination certificate recognized the little square painted on his skin.
Gabriele Pellerone with the Green Pass tattooed on her arm.
It was difficult to convince the local employee to put the reader on her arm, but Andrea succeeded.
And the device was able to decode the health passport that is engraved on the skin.
The health pass in European format, with a flash code that allows checking if the carrier is vaccinated or has a recent negative test, came into effect on July 1 in the European Union.
In Italy, from August 6, it is essential to show the Green Pass that certifies the vaccination against Covid to enter bars and restaurants, cinemas and theaters and even to go to stadiums and theme parks or outdoor amusement parks.
Happy with his tattoo,
Andrea showed it on Instagram
, where he was criticized by those who interpreted in his gesture a lack of respect towards the victims of the Holocaust, many of whom were identified, during their captivity,
with numbers and letters
tattooed on their arms.
Other lighter comments pointed to the disputed expiration of the vaccination certificate.
"What are you going to do in a few months, when it expires?" They asked Andrea, ironically, on social networks.
It works!
Gabriele passing her tattoo through the QR reader of a cell phone.
Self-adhesive QR
In Spain there are companies that offer less invasive alternatives such as
printing stickers
with the QR code to have the sticker stuck
where you like it the most.
And a business in Ourense, in Galicia,
prints T-shirts
to wear the code directly.
For 12 euros, Otis Rodríguez reproduces the complete vaccination certificate of the European Union on a white T-shirt.
Otis Rodríguez reproduces the complete vaccination certificate of the European Union on a white T-shirt.
Photo: Courtesy Brais Loureda
"We will have already made about 200," he tells
Clarín
.
Although he admits that now, with the end of the holidays in this part of the map, the fury for displaying the code that certifies being vaccinated to travel through Europe without having to undergo a PCR or quarantine, has
eased considerably.
His idea caught on when he printed his own vaccination certificate on a T-shirt and walked into a bar.
At that time, Galicia required to present the QR code of the health passport to enter the interior of bars and restaurants but later, the local Courts
annulled the measure.
Many stamp the QR on a souvenir T-shirt.
Photo: Courtesy Brais Loureda
"Those who come to make the t-shirt with the QR code now do it more to
keep it as a souvenir
than anything else," adds Otis from his Lobisome business, on Rúa Ervedelo 44 in Ourense.
Madrid. Correspondent
ap
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