NYC Declares 3/14/21 <br />a Day of Remembrance.<br />New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <br />announced the declaration in his <br />final COVID-19 briefing of 2020.<br />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.<br />New York has topped 30,000 <br />confirmed COVID-19 deaths <br />since de Blasio’s briefing.<br />Brooklyn and Queens have remained the third <br />and fourth deadliest coronavirus counties in the nation.<br />New York City has also set a goal <br />to vaccinate at least 1 million <br />residents by the end of January