Dracula's Castle In Romania Becomes COVID-19 Vaccination Centre To Attract Tourists

The Dracula's castle located in Romania has now become a COVID-19 vaccination centre.

The Transylvanian attraction is now offering free COVID-19 vaccine shots to tourists who are visiting the place. "The idea ... was to show how people got jabbed 500-600 years ago in Europe," the castle's marketing director, Alexandru Priscu, said.

Doctors and nurses have with fang stickers on their scrubs are giving free COVID-19 (produced by Pfizer-BioNTech) shots to everyone at Dracula's castle. With this unit, the castle's staff hope to attract more visitors to the site as their numbers have plummeted, ever since the pandemic started. Besides the free vaccine, tourists will also receive the special “Bran Castle vaccination diploma.”

Anyone can visit Dracula's castle without taking any appointments

Anyone can visit the castle, without any appointments every weekend in the month of May. Besides that, they will also get an opportunity to have a look at the 52 medieval torture instruments at the castle.

Fernando Orozco, a 37-year-old renewable energy market developer based in Berlin said that he had been planning on visiting the castle. He was able to do so on Saturday. "I was already planning to come to the castle and I just thought it was the two-for-one special," he said. This event commenced on May 7.

The Romanian government has now said that it plans to vaccinate 10 million of its people by September. However, a survey released in April by Bratislava-based think tank Globsec said that among the EU’s eastern member countries, Romanians were one of those people who were least inclined towards taking the COVID-19 vaccine.

Meanwhile, India is still struggling against the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the World Health Organisation listing the virus' latest variant as 'a variant of concern.'  In order to control the pandemic, some states have offered to vaccinate people for free. The latest state to do so is Jharkhand.