Bethel Missionary Baptist Church holds memorial service for COVID-19 victims
and last updated 2021-04-12 01:29:36-04
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â 310 crosses are placed on the front lawn of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee. Each cross represents a person in Leon County who died from COVID-19.
Sunday marked one year since the first COVID-19 related death in the county. The church held a memorial service for those who didn t get the chance to get vaccinated.
Linda Edwards has received the vaccine. She credits the Statewide Coronavirus Vaccination Community Education and Engagement Taskforce led by Rev. R.B. Holmes and former city commissioner Elaine Bryant for getting people vaccinated, but adds more lives need to be saved lives.
County Commission Chair Rick Minor and Mayor John Dailey
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A full year into the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone’s lives have been transformed into a hard new normal. This pandemic – the worst public health crisis in a century – will be with us for a while, even as we all seek to do our jobs, go to school, enjoy ourselves and carefully gather, travel and live our lives.
The virus has not spared the Big Bend. COVID-19 forced many businesses to close, threw many people out of work, and claimed the lives of more than 450 residents of the four Big Bend counties of Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon and Wakulla.
Leon County Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna also is scheduled to attend.
The news conference will be held virtually at 10 a.m. via Zoom. To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN AQR1aJXARFmg971cKUsX-w.
Several members of this new initiative participate in a weekly Friday live-streamed conversation on the status of COVID-19 locally, hosted by Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. To pre-register for that event, visit TMH. org.
Local COVID-19 update
Leon County has had 51 more residents test positive for COVID-19, and one more resident has died because of the virus, the Florida Department of Health reported on Tuesday.
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