2022 in Vietnam
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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]
- 12–23 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

- 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
- ↑ "Vietnam confirms first community cases of Omicron". hanoitimes.vn. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
- ↑ "Vietnam pull off historic victory over China in FIFA World Cup qualifier". Tuổi Trẻ. Hanoi. February 2022. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ↑ "Vietnam to end COVID curbs on international flights". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ↑ "Vietnam karaoke bar fire kills at least 32 people". BBC News. 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ "Nguyên Phó Thủ tướng Chính phủ Nguyễn Côn từ trần" [Former Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Con passed away] (in Vietnamese). VOV. 9 January 2022.
- ↑ Greenblatt, Lilly (21 January 2022). "Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the great Buddhist teachers of our time, dies at 95". Lion's Roar.
- ↑ VnExpress. "Kình ngư Nguyễn Hữu Việt qua đời". vnexpress.net (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ↑ "Giáo sư, Viện sĩ Nguyễn Duy Quý từ trần". VOV.VN (in Vietnamese). 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Bishop Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ↑ "Minh tinh Thẩm Thúy Hằng qua đời". Báo điện tử Tiền Phong (in Vietnamese). 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ↑ Burnham, Emily (2022-10-25). "UMaine history professor Ngo Vinh Long, outspoken Vietnam War opponent, has died". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ↑ VnExpress. "Nhà văn Lê Lựu qua đời". vnexpress.net (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-12-22.
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