2022 in Vietnam

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Events in the year 2022 in Vietnam .

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party – Nguyễn Phú Trọng
• President – Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
• Prime Minister – Phạm Minh Chính
• Chairman of the National Assembly – Vương Đình Huệ

Events

• Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam
• 20 January – The country reports its first three locally transmitted cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Ho Chi Minh City. ^[1]
• 1 February: Vietnam national football team surprisingly wins against China at the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC third round. ^[2]
• 15 February – Vietnam lifts its COVID-19-related curbs on international passenger flights with no limitation on the number of flights in order to restore the travel to pre-pandemic level. ^[3]
• 12 May – 23 May: 2021 SEA Games take place in Hanoi.
• 22 May: The Vietnam national under-23 football team won against Thailand in the gold medal match of men's football at the 2021 SEA Games, many Vietnamese people took to the streets to celebrate.
• 6 September – A karaoke bar fire near Ho Chi Minh City kills at least 32 people. ^[4]

Deaths

Thích Nhất Hạnh

• 9 January – Nguyễn Côn, politician, deputy prime minister (b. 1916). ^[5]
• 22 January – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1926). ^[6]
• 25 March – Nguyễn Hữu Việt, Olympic swimmer (b. 1988) ^[7]
• 4 May – Nguyễn Duy Quý, academic and politician (b. 1932) ^[8]
• 6 July – Tricia, Vietnamese-born Australian Asian elephant (b. 1957) ^[9]
• 23 July – Nguyễn Xuân Vinh, aerospace engineer and military officer (b. 1930) ^[10]
• 29 August – Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1927) ^[11]
• 6 September – Thẩm Thúy Hằng, actress (b. 1939) ^[12]
• 12 October – Ngo Vinh Long, Vietnamese-American historian (b. 1944) ^[13]
• 9 November – Lê Lựu, writer (b. 1942) ^[14]

References

1. "Vietnam confirms first community cases of Omicron". hanoitimes.vn. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
2. "Vietnam pull off historic victory over China in FIFA World Cup qualifier". Tuổi Trẻ. Hanoi. February 2022. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
3. "Vietnam to end COVID curbs on international flights". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
4. "Vietnam karaoke bar fire kills at least 32 people". BBC News. 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
5. "Nguyên Phó Thủ tướng Chính phủ Nguyễn Côn từ trần" [Former Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Con passed away] (in Vietnamese). VOV. 9 January 2022.
6. Greenblatt, Lilly (21 January 2022). "Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the great Buddhist teachers of our time, dies at 95". Lion's Roar.
7. VnExpress. "Kình ngư Nguyễn Hữu Việt qua đời". vnexpress.net (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-12-22.
8. "Giáo sư, Viện sĩ Nguyễn Duy Quý từ trần". VOV.VN (in Vietnamese). 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
9. "Young and old share stories as emotional tributes flow for Perth Zoo's beloved elephant, Tricia". ABC News. 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
10. "GS Nguyễn Xuân Vinh, cựu tư lệnh Không Quân VNCH, qua đời ở tuổi 92". Nguoi Viet Online. 2022-07-25. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
11. "Bishop Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
12. "Minh tinh Thẩm Thúy Hằng qua đời". Báo điện tử Tiền Phong (in Vietnamese). 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
13. Burnham, Emily (2022-10-25). "UMaine history professor Ngo Vinh Long, outspoken Vietnam War opponent, has died". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
14. VnExpress. "Nhà văn Lê Lựu qua đời". vnexpress.net (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-12-22.