By Lan Phong
Dantri Online Newspaper, Vietnam
HANOI: Smoked soil, a rare and odd dish, has been a popular cookie for many local people in Vietnam’s northern province of Vinh Phuc for generations.
Khong Thi Bien, 86, in Lap Thach Town took out a bag of smoked soil from her kitchen to invite us. Seeing us reluctant to take a bite, she smiled, saying that many guests from other places do not dare to try it, but many others have become addicted after eating.
Khong Thi Bien eats smoked soil, a specialty of Lap Thach Town, Vinh Phuc Province
“Smoked soil is a specialty of our town,” the elderly woman said. “I don’t know when we started eating the soil dug up from the foot of the mountain behind our house, but we just followed our parents in eating it.”
A 20-year-old man is the first person to be provided with Made-in-Vietnam Nanocovax vaccine at the Military Medical Academy in Hanoi on December 17.
By Lan Phong
HANOI: Vietnam on Thursday started the first trial Covid-19 vaccine shots on volunteers.
Three people were given the made-in-Vietnam Covid-19 vaccine at the Hanoi-based Military Medical Academy this morning, December 17.
The volunteers were provided with Nanocovax, a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC.
Dr To Minh Sy, Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC’s director for research and development, said that the volunteers have to stay at the immunisation room for at least 30 minutes for monitoring. They were instructed how to recognise possible reactions after the injection. The interval between the first and second injection will be 28 days.