The Vietnam Athletics team has gathered at the National Sports Training Center (Nhon) since January 2022 and practiced through the Lunar New Year, actively preparing for the 31 SEA Games. However, the team's training plan has changed because of the effect of the disease.

Accordingly, there have been cases of positive with Covid-19 in the Vietnamese athletics team in recent days. A coach of the team said that on February 9 and 10, 2022, athletics groups had to suspend training for CIVI-19 testing.
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PCR test results of more than 10 athletes positive. However, to ensure privacy, coaching staff and athletes are required to keep the identities of F0 cases.
The more positive information came yesterday when the cases of F0 were mild fever 1 night was stable health. However, to ensure the safety of disease prevention, the F0 must still be isolated the number of days prescribed, before returning to practice.

From February 11, athletes who have negative test results have returned to normal training. The coaching staff also rearranges the training schedule and meals between groups and groups of athletes to prevent disease. Health monitoring, CIVI-19 tests will continue to be conducted in the following days to screen.
SEA Games 31 will take place from 12-23 May. Athletics will be held at My Dinh Stadium (Hanoi) from May 14-19. The athletes will compete in 47 competition content. The goal of Vietnamese athletics is to continue the first group with about 15 gold medals. The brothers Quach Cong Lich and Quach Thi Lan are still golden hope of Vietnamese athletics.