Vlad the vaccinator: Dracula's castle in Romania lures visitors with Covid-19 jabs

'The idea ... was to show how people got jabbed 500-600 years ago in Europe,' said Alexandru Priscu, Bran Castle's marketing director. Photo: Reuters

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.

Doctors and nurses with fang 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.