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While most people would rather forget living through a pandemic, Andrea Colonnetta, has got a permanent reminder – a tattoo of his COVID-19 vaccine certificate.

The 22-year-old studies economics in Reggio Calabria, a city on the "toe" of the Italian boot-shaped peninsula, and said he wants "to remember this historic time."

While he says he's "just a normal guy," his body art has attracted the glare of the world's media, which picked up his story and sent it viral - with many accounts stating he's the only person in the world to have a COVID-19 digital pass tattooed on his body.