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Despite toned down celebrations due to COVID-19, Vietnamese people everywhere have welcomed the Lunar New Year wishing for a happy future.

People celebrate the New Year on Nguyễn Huệ Flower Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. VNA/VNS photo Quang Châu

Tourists join Vietnamese in their flower street celebrations. VNA/VNS photo Quang Châu

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng visits and extends greetings to Hà Nội people and Party members on Monday on the occasion of Tết and Party's 92nd founding anniversary (February 3, 1930). VNA/VNS photo Trí Dũng

People wait for their traditional Tết calligraphy paintings at Ngọc Sơn Temple, Hà Nội. VNA/VNS photo Tuấn Đức

People go out to welcome the New Year and bring home some symbols of luck in Hà Nội. Buying branches of young buds, rice and salt is believed to bring happiness and wealth in the new year. VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hiếu

After midnight, many people visit and light incense at the monument dedicated to King Lê Lợi (1385 -1433), the national hero native of Thanh Hóa Province, wishing for luck. VNA/VNS photo Nguyễn Nam

Vietnamese workers at a workshop in Kirzhach, about 100 km northeast of Moscow, Russia, hold their year-end party to celebrate the traditional Tết. VNA/VNS photo Duy Trinh

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