March 14 is COVID-19 Remembrance Day in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio declared Thursday.
The city reported its first fatal accident with the coronavirus on March 14, 2020, and the event will recognize all people who have since died from the bug.
The City Health Department reports that 25,099 Big Apple deaths are linked to COVID-19.
Of that total, 20,295 were confirmed deaths from the virus, while 4,804 other fatalities were considered “probable” COVID-19 cases.
De Blasio said residents of “all backgrounds” were affected, but noted that the disease mainly affected the city’s poorest minority neighborhoods.
“So much that we have lost has been victims of inequality … victims of too much racism,” the mayor said at his press conference at the end of the year.
