First-year students and lecturers at the University of Technology VNUHCM have developed an IoT-integrated automatic body temperature measurement and hand-washing machine for COVID-19 prevention and control. Photo courtesy of the university TMA Innovation Company is collaborating with the Quang Trung Software City in HCM City to make a home quarantine monitoring device.

The multidimensional poverty rate in Việt Nam was 4.5 per cent last year, down from 9.9 per cent in 2016, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).