2020 in Zambia

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Decades:
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
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Incumbents

Events
  • March 18 - First case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia[1]
  • March 22 - A third case was recorded. The patient was a man who had travelled to Pakistan.[2]
  • March 25 - President Edgar Lungu confirmed a total of 12 cases during a live national address.[3]
  • April 2 - Zambia records its first death from COVID-19.[4]
  • September 8 – President Lungu joins students at Copperbelt University (CBU) in mourning the death of "Mafishi," a large fish thought to bring studnts good luck.[5]
  • November 13 – Finance Minister Bwalya Ng’andu says that Zambia is defaulting on its debt.[6]

Deaths

See also

References
  1. "Ministry of Health Zambia". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  2. "Zambia confirms third coronavirus case". News Diggers. 22 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  3. "Lungu's full address: Zambia confirms 12 COVID-19 cases as lock down looms". News Diggers. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  4. "Ministry of Health Zambia". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  5. "Zambia's president mourns death of good-luck fish". news.yahoo.com. BBC. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  6. "Zambia to default on foreign debt, finance minister says". msn.com. Al Jazeera English. November 13, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  7. ‘We’ve lost a dedicated revolutionary icon’
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