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New York will host a grand parade on July 7 in honor of essential workers in the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.
Following New York tradition, the parade will take place at the southern end of Broadway in Manhattan, a place also called the Canyon of Heroes.
Tribute will be paid to medical personnel, but also to municipal employees, teachers and professors, employees of public transport, supermarkets and warehouses, and food delivery people.
It is about celebrating “the people who kept us alive, who allowed this city to advance despite everything (…) the heroes who are often forgotten,” de Blasio explained in his daily press conference.
The announcement of the event takes place when 64.8% of adults have received at least one dose of the virus vaccine in New York, where the rate of positive cases fell on Monday to 0.59% (average of the last seven days), a record low since this data was recorded.
Since the pandemic began in March 2019, more than 33,000 people have died in New York City, the national epicenter of the health crisis.
“This past year we literally lived through the greatest crisis in New York history.
“We were shot down but we stood up again and that’s something to celebrate in this city,” the mayor said.
The great parades to mark occasions of great importance are part of the history of the city. The first took place in 1886, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty.
As the parade passed through the finance district, Wall Street, stockbrokers threw pieces of paper from the windows on which were inscribed the prices of stocks.
It was a kind of confetti shower that since then became a tradition in subsequent parades to pay tribute to heads of state and government, religious dignitaries, military leaders, athletes and celebrities.
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