2020 in Zambia
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Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 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 students good luck.[5]
- November 13 – Finance Minister Bwalya Ng’andu says that Zambia is defaulting on its debt.[6]
Deaths
[edit]- August 16 – Alexander Grey Zulu, 95, Zambian politician, Minister of Commerce and Industry (1964) and Defence (1970–1973).[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ministry of Health Zambia". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
- ^ "Zambia confirms third coronavirus case". News Diggers. 22 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
- ^ "Lungu's full address: Zambia confirms 12 COVID-19 cases as lock down looms". News Diggers. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
- ^ "Ministry of Health Zambia". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ "Zambia's president mourns death of good-luck fish". news.yahoo.com. BBC. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ "Zambia to default on foreign debt, finance minister says". msn.com. Al Jazeera English. November 13, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
- ^ ‘We’ve lost a dedicated revolutionary icon’
