ROME, Aug 22 — A 22-year-old student in Italy has become an unexpected Internet sensation after tattooing the barcode of his Covid certificate on his arm.
“It’s certainly something original, I like to be different,” Colonnetta, from the southern city of Reggio Calabria, toldThe underside of Colonnetta’s left arm now bears a matrix of black squares from the QR code of his official Italian green pass. An extension of the EU’s digital Covid certificate, it has been required in Italy since August 6 to get into cinemas, museums and indoor sports venues or to eat indoors at restaurants.
“Certainly they encouraged me to be less impulsive and to better reflect on things...” he told the paper.