2020 in Zambia

Incumbents

• President: Edgar Lungu

Events

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

Deaths

• August 16 – Alexander Grey Zulu, 95, Zambian politician, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Defence.