GTA 5 Players Created Queues to Get Vaccinated [Video]

Pfizer, which has enabled the development of the coronavirus vaccine thanks to its work with BioNTech, has implemented a remarkable project in Brazil. Pfizer Brazil management, which made an agreement with Cidade Alta, which was created for the online mode of Grand Theft Auto 5, one of the most popular games in the world and known as the largest server in Latin America, started to ensure that gamers are vaccinated in GTA Online. The reason for doing this is predictably to encourage people to get the COVID-19 vaccine in the real world.

GTA Online players know; You can play the game only on official servers, or you can experience roleplay with customized servers. Cidade Alta is a server in the second category. As part of the cooperation, the officials who set up vaccination centers on this customizable server give a special tag to the players who have been vaccinated. This tag, which can be affixed to the arm in the game, has become a force among the players on the server.

Here is a vaccine center on the server named Cidade Alta.

Customized GTA 5 servers, which can be connected through intermediary applications such as FIVEM, also allow players to become members of certain professions. In this context; With the privatization works for Cidade Alta, healthcare professionals were also placed in the game. These players, who are responsible for shooting vaccines, inform other games like real life, who go to the vaccine center to get information about the vaccine. In this way, it is aimed to eliminate fears about the vaccine.

The vaccination event on the dedicated server for GTA Online has become very popular among players. Players who want to have the best Roleplay experience can go to these centers to get their vaccinations and start using the stickers created for their avatars in the game. Moreover, the authorities also launched a campaign on social media so that the event could reach more people. As part of this campaign, the tagged avatars in the game are shared on real social media platforms.

Pfizer has now started to monitor how incentives made through the GTA Online server will be reflected in the real world. Time will tell if people will be affected by the event being created on Latin America’s largest GTA Online server. According to data in Our World in Data, 60.04% of the Brazilian population is fully vaccinated. The coming days will allow it to be understood whether the GTA Online campaign is working or not.

A roleplay video showing the vaccine centers on the GTA Online server