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 February – Vietnam national football team surprisingly wins against China at the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC third round. 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. 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.
Deaths
9 January – Nguyễn Côn, politician, deputy prime minister (b. 1916). 22 January – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1926). 25 March – Nguyễn Hữu Việt, Olympic swimmer (b. 1988) 4 May – Nguyễn Duy Quý, academic and politician (b. 1932) 6 July – Tricia, Vietnamese-born Australian Asian elephant (b. 1957) 23 July – Nguyễn Xuân Vinh, aerospace engineer and military officer (b. 1930) 29 August – Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1927) 6 September – Thẩm Thúy Hằng, actress (b. 1939) 12 October – Ngo Vinh Long, Vietnamese-American historian (b. 1944) 9 November – Lê Lựu, writer (b. 1942)
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