NYC Declares 3/14/21 a Day of Remembrance.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the declaration in his final COVID-19 briefing of 2020.
We need to recognize 25,000 of our fellow New Yorkers gone — that's something we have to always mark going forward, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, via briefing.
New York has topped 30,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths since de Blasio’s briefing.
Brooklyn and Queens have remained the third and fourth deadliest coronavirus counties in the nation.
New York City has also set a goal to vaccinate at least 1 million residents by the end of January