New York City honored the 30,000 residents who died of coronavirus in a remembrance ceremony Sunday night that featured faces of the pandemic’s victims projected in light on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The virtual memorial, called, “A COVID-19 Day of Remembrance,” was held on the one-year anniversary of the city’s first known coronavirus death.
“Every morning, the first thing I see is a list,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the ceremony. “And there are numbers on it. But what it really means, is how many people we lost.
“Today that number is more than 30,000. It’s a number we can barely imagine,” the mayor said.
But, de Blasio said, the memory of those lost will carry on forever.
“Every single one of them. Everyone we’ve lost — what they did goes on. What they contributed, what they created, the love they gave goes on,” he said.
As of Sunday afternoon, 30,258 people in the Big Apple have died from the virus, according to city data.
Read more at NY Post.
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