Romania s Dracula s castle offers tourists Covid shots
Romania s Dracula s castle offers tourists Covid shots
Those who take the jab are handed a certificate hailing their boldness and responsibility promising they will be welcome at the castle for the coming 100 years as well as offered a free tour of the torture chamber .
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Bran Castle towers above Bran commune, in Brasov county, Romania. (Photo: Reuters)
Visitors to Romania s forbidding Bran Castle, widely known as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula, are being jabbed with needles rather than vampiric fangs this weekend in a coronavirus vaccination drive. I came to visit the castle with my family and when I saw the poster I gathered up my courage and agreed to get the injection, said 39-year-old engineer Liviu Necula.
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Get punctured at ‘Dracula’s castle’: Free vaccinations and a trip to the torture chamber
Bran Castle in Romania will be a vaccination centre for the next month. The castle is associated with the man who is said to be the inspiration for Dracula.
The Romanian government is finding innovative ways to vaccinate its population of 19 million people. Local vaccination drives and 24-hour “marathons” are taking place at populated venues – like the National Library in Bucharest – or places of cultural significance, such as “Dracula’s castle.”
Bran Castle is associated with the 15
th century Romanian prince, Vlad Tepes – also known as “the Impaler” – the man who inspired Bram Stokers’s 1897 novel
‘Dracula’s castle’ offers visitors Covid vaccine and free visit to torture exhibition Leah Sinclair
Visitors to Romania’s Bran Castle, popularly known as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula, are being offered a Covid-19 jab and a free visit to the torture exhibition as part of a coronavirus vaccination drive.
Medical workers with bloody fang stickers on their scrubs are offering free shots of the Pfizer vaccine every Friday, Saturday and Sunday this month.
Those who take the jab are given a certificate applauding their boldness and responsibility while promising they will be welcome at the castle for the coming 100 years - as well as offering a free tour of the torture chamber including 52 medieval torture tools.
In a bid to reach its target of vaccinating 10 million people by September, Romania has transformed one of its most popular tourist attractions into a vaccination centre. Dracula’s castle -
While in normal circumstances it’s probably the last place we would want to be receiving punctures to our skin, people have been queuing up to see the fabled Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania.
A recent survey revealed that of all the EU’s eastern members, Romanians were least inclined to be vaccinated. Officials came up with the idea of transforming the mythical mansion into a vaccination centre to help speed up Romania s inoculation programme - and it s proving to be something of a shot in the arm for the local tourist industry.
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