Dracula's castle in Romania lures visitors with free Covid-19 jabs
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Romania's forbidding Bran Castle
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.
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How are tourists lured?
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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Where is it?
Nestled in a misty valley in the Carpathian mountains, Bran Castle is associated with the 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad Tepes, known as "the Impaler", although he never stayed there. Dracula author Bram Stoker is believed to have been inspired by Vlad and descriptions of Bran Castle when writing his 1897 novel that helped found the modern vampire genre.
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Castle turned into vaccination center
Romania's government has turned to local vaccination drives and 24-hour "marathons" at major venues like the National Library in Bucharest to get as many citizens as possible immunised.
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Aim
Almost 3.6 million Romanians of the country's 19 million people have received at least one vaccine dose, with authorities aiming for five million by June.