Students and teachers at Nguyen Trai High School in Hanoi got tested for Covid-19 on Saturday after going on a field trip to Chí Linh City, Hai Doung Province, the epicentre of community outbreaks in the country. - Vietnam News/ANN
HANOI, Jan 31 (Reuters):Vietnam's ruling Communist Party re-elected its 76-year-old chief Nguyen Phu Trong for a rare third five-year term on Sunday, as the South-East Asian country battled its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began.
Trong, who emerged on top in a power struggle at the last congress in 2016 and has spearheaded a "blazing furnace" crackdown on corruption in the last five years, was granted an exception to party rules that say people over the age of 65 should retire, cementing his position as one of the country's strongest and longest-serving leaders for decades.
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