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N.J. communities mourn those lost to COVID-19 with flowers and memories
Updated Mar 02, 2021;
Posted Mar 02, 2021
On March 1, mourners gathered at five locations across New Jersey to memorialize those lost to COVID-19. Pictured are Maria Vazquez, whose husband Israel Tolentino died from the coronavirus, and Cesar Perez, Tolentino s mentor.Courtesy of Amanda Elisca
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Nearly a year after New Jersey’s first reported case of the coronavirus, Garden State residents gathered at locations across the state to take part in a national day of mourning to remember the loved ones lost to COVID-19.
On Monday, residents who lost friends and family to COVID-19 gathered in Passaic City, Roselle and Union to lay flowers arranged as hearts and to remember those who succumbed to the virus, including the first firefighter in the state to die from the coronavirus and a Passaic EMT.
PASSAIC City firefighters, EMTs and workers at St. Mary s Hospital took part Monday in what some are calling a national COVID Memorial Day.
Not yet official, the first Monday in March would become COVID-19 Victims and Survivors Memorial Day under a bill introduced by Rep. Greg Stanton, an Arizona Democrat. This week, Americans mourned half a million lives lost to the coronavirus half a million family members, friends, neighbors and coworkers,” Stanton said in a news release about his bill. “Long after our nation moves beyond this most grim episode, we will need to collectively recognize all those we lost and the aftershocks of what we experienced.”