Westchester Commemorates 1-Year Anniversary Of Coronavirus

White Plains NY

03 March, 2021

3:45 PM

Description

WHITE PLAINS, NY — To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Westchester County's first confirmed coronavirus case, a ceremony was held Wednesday in the lobby of the Michaelian Office Building The lobby is the site of the county's "Ribbons of Remembrance" memorial. To date, the county has lost more than 2,000 lives to the disease. County Executive George Latimer said, in the past year, Westchester residents have rallied together in so many ways, but was imperative to take time to grieve and heal together. SEE ALSO: Coronavirus: One Year Later In Westchester County "What today is about is remembering those we have lost not as merely an integer or statistic, but as human beings and the valued members of our community that they were," he said. The event started at 11 a.m. with an interfaith prayer service led by Father Luke Hoyt from Holy Innocents Catholic Church, Rabbi Annie Tucker from Temple Israel Center and Imam Shaffieq Chace from the Westchester Muslim Center. The program was followed at noon with a moment of silence. Watch the ceremony below.