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Events in the year 2020 in Haiti.

Incumbents

Events
  • January 1 – 216th Independence Day (Public holiday)[1]
  • January 2 – Ancestry Day (Public holiday)
  • January 2 and 3 – Mange Loa (Voodoo holiday, "the breaking of the cakes")
  • January 6 – Epiphany (holiday) (Public and Christian holiday)
  • January 12 – Remembrance Day (victims of 2010 Haiti earthquake (Public holiday)
  • January 20
    • Saint Sebastian (Roman Catholic holiday)
    • Grand Bois (Voodoo holiday, "great wood")
  • February 13 – Fifteen children die in a fire in an orphanage in Kenscoff, Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Ouest Department.[2]
  • February 23 – Police in Port-au-Prince violently protest against money being spent on a carnaval celebrations instead of their salaries.[3]
  • February 25 – Mardi Gras (Public holiday)
  • February 26 – Ash Wednesday (Roman Catholic holiday)
  • April 6 – Haiti has community transmission of the coronavirus.[4]
  • April 9
  • April 10 – Good Friday (Christian holiday)
  • April 12 – Easter (Christian holiday)
  • April 13 – A historical landmark church inside Haiti’s UNESCO World Heritage site, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church in Milot, is destroyed in a fire.[6]
  • April 20 – Haiti reopens factories; the country reports 40 COVID-19 cases and three deaths.[7]
  • April 21 – Haiti and Mexico have detected coronavirus infections among migrants deported recently from the United States.[8]
  • May 8 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti calls for immediate action to address health and humanitarian needs, alongside ongoing efforts to promote sustainable development and resilience to future shocks. The organization warns that that the COVID-19 pandemic may increase poverty in a country where four million people need urgent food assistance, and at least one million are suffering from severe hunger. Haiti has 101 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths, and it still suffers from the 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak.[9]
  • June 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: The government says the virus has peaked in Haiti. 4,309 people have been infected and 73 have died since March 19 when the virus was first detected.[10]
  • July 13 – COVID-19 pandemic: A report by The New York Times and the Marshall Project indicates that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) worsened the spread of the pandemic by deporting sick people to their countries of origin, including Haiti.[11]

Scheduled events

Deaths

See also

References
  1. Haiti Public Holidays 2020 retrieved 27 Feb 2020
  2. Mueren 15 niños al incendiarse orfanato en Haití (in Spanish) La Jornada, 14 Feb 2020
  3. Haiti carnival season start descends into gunfire and violent protests Independent, 24 Feb 2020
  4. "Haiti now has community transmission of the coronavirus. It's getting rapid testing". The Miami Herald. Retrieved Apr 26, 2020.
  5. "Haitians are fleeing the Dominican Republic due to coronavirus. Many arrive home unscreened". The Miami Herald. Apr 9, 2020. Retrieved Apr 26, 2020.
  6. "Historical symbol of Haitian identity gutted after church dome goes up in flames". Apr 13, 2020. Retrieved Apr 26, 2020.
  7. "Haiti declares early victory over coronavirus, plans to reopen factories". The Miami Herald. April 15, 2020. Retrieved Apr 26, 2020.
  8. "Exporting coronavirus? Infections among U.S. deportees reach Haiti, Mexico". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  9. "'Humanitarian catastrophe' looms in Haiti, threatening years of progress as COVID-19 takes hold, ECOSOC group says". UN News. 8 May 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  10. "Haiti says virus infections have peaked". medicalxpress.com. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  11. "Servicio Migratorio de EU "exportó" Covid al regresar a personas infectadas". El Universal (in Spanish). 13 July 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  12. "Bernard Diederich, dean of Haitian press who devoted life to telling Haiti's story, dies". miamiherald.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  13. "Le célèbre poète haïtien Georges Castera est mort à 83 ans". rezonodwes.com (in French). Retrieved 26 January 2020.
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