Vietnam’s Southeast Asian Games given May 2022 start date after Covid-19 spread brought under control


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The 2021 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) have been moved to 2022 after the country announced in July that the biennial multi-sport event would be postponed from its planned November start date due to the spread of Covid-19. The regional Games, which feature 11 national Olympic committee teams competing in 520 events across 40 sports, will now be held in Hanoi during an as yet unspecified two week period in May 2022. Vietnam suffered a huge spike in coronavirus cases earlier this year and the government introduced a raft of lockdown measure to minimise the outbreak. Almost 20 per cent...