Despite the dedicated treatment from the Party, State, professors, and doctors and the wholehearted care from his family, General Secretary Trong succumbed to his illness due to his advanced age and severe condition. He was 80.
A special communique on the organization of the State Funeral for General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will be issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the National Assembly, the President, the Government, and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.