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Westchester County Executive George Latimer spoke at the commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in the county. (Westchester County Government)
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.
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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.
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The solemn event began 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 Islamic Center of New Rochelle. In this year where we have all experienced so much pain and loss, we stand in solidarity as brothers and sisters praying for safety and healing for our families, our community, and our world, Tucker said.
The prayers were followed by remarks from Latimer, Jenkins, and Board of Legislators Chairman Ben Boykin; poems read by the county s Poet Laureate B.K. Fischer and the county s Youth Poet Laureate Danielle Kohn; and a musical interlude from a string quartet made up of students and faculty from White Plains High School.
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Westchester County marked the one-year anniversary of its first COVID-19 case Wednesday, this as another vaccination mega-site run by the state of New York and FEMA opened in Yonkers.
County Executive George Latimer held commemoration ceremony in the lobby of the Michaelian Office Building in White Plains, where the county s Ribbons of Remembrance memorial now stands.
Westchester has lost over 2,000 lives to the virus to date, and the first large scale outbreak in the East Coast occurred at the Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue, with the so-called patient zero a congregant, a lawyer who lives in the area.