Visitors to Dracula's castle are more likely to find puncture marks in their arms than their necks this month, after medics set up a COVID-19 vaccination centre at the Transylvanian attraction.
The Romanian government wants to vaccinate 10 million of its people by September
Castle staff hope the service will bring more people to the site in Romania's Carpathian mountains, where tourist numbers have plummeted since the start of the pandemic. Count Dracula is popularly believed to be based on Romanian national hero and 15th-century ruler of Wallachia Vlad III Dracula, better known as Vlad the Impaler after his habit of executing enemies by impaling them on wooden poles.
It is now marketed as a vaccination hub, where medics wearing fang stickers on their scrubs will impale anyone who turns up — no appointment necessary — every weekend in May."The idea … was to show how people got jabbed 500-600 years ago in Europe," the castle's marketing director, Alexandru Priscu, said.One of the visitors on Saturday was Fernando Orozco, a 37-year-old renewable energy market developer usually based in Berlin who has been working remotely out of Romania.
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