In an announcement issued by the Expert Council for the Health Protection of Central-level Officials, the Party chief had been under the intensive care of leading medical experts and doctors and was with his family.

He passed away due to age-related illness at the Military Hospital 108 in Hanoi, at the age of 80.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front will issue a special communiqué regarding the organization of the State funeral for Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Thu Hang