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Visitors to Bran Castle in Romania this month can expect a jab in the arm rather than a bite in the neck, as the Dracula attraction takes part in a vaccination drive.
Health authorities have opened up Bran Castle in Transylvania for jabs every weekend this May, without the need to pre-book. The site is believed to have been an inspiration for Bram Stoker, who wrote the 1897 vampire novel Dracula.
Doctors and nurses administered the injections to any interested visitors before they continued on their tour.
“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,” engineer Liviu Necula told AFP news agency.
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Romania is using tourist attractions, local vaccination drives and even 24-hour vaccine “marathons” to get as many people to take the jab as possible.
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