Romania's Bran castle famously known as 'Dracula's castle' offers free COVID-19 shots to tourists in a hope to attract more people to the site in Romania's Carpathian mountains, where tourist numbers have plummeted since the start of the pandemic. Medics set up a COVID-19 vaccination centre at the Transylvanian attraction, where visitors to Dracula's castle are more likely to find puncture marks in their arms than their necks. Let us take a look at some of the images from the 'Dracula's castle' in Romania: To boost Romania's tourism, the step to offering free COVID-19 shots will surely attract more visitors. (Reuters Photo) -
Doctors and nurses with bloody vampire mouth stickers on their scrubs are offering free Pfizer shots to all-comers at 14th century Bran Castle, which is purported to be an inspiration for the vampire's towering home in Bram Stoker’s novel "Dracula". (Reuters Photo)
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Anyone can turn up without an appointment every weekend in May. They also get free entry to the castle's exhibit of 52 medieval torture instruments. (Reuters Photo)
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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. (Reuters Photo)
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The government has said it wants to vaccinate 10 million of its people by September, but a survey released in April by Bratislava-based think tank Globsec showed Romanians were the least inclined to get vaccinated among the EU’s eastern members. (Reuters Photo)
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"The idea … was to show how people got jabbed 500-600 years ago in Europe," the castle's marketing director, Alexandru Priscu, said. (Reuters Photo)
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Fernando Orozco poses with a mock diploma attesting his vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the temporary vaccination center at Bran Castle, in Brasov county, Romania. (Reuters Photo)

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