HAYWARD, CA – JANUARY 26: Hayward City Hall is illuminated in gold light as a tribute to COVID-19 victims in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2020. The City of Hayward is honoring the 149 lives lost to COVID-19 in Hayward during the first year of the pandemic with a display of 149 American flags and a special lighting installation that began at sundown Monday and will last for 149 hours. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
Hayward City Hall glowed in gold as lights were lit Monday evening to remember the city’s 149 COVID-19 victims.
The city honored the the lives lost to COVID-19 in Hayward during the first year of the pandemic with a display of 149 American flags, the message “We Remember” is being projected for 149 hours and the rotunda has been wrapped in the flags for the memorial.
At the Gateway Rehabilitation and Care Center, 13 people died from the coronavirus. This newspaper launched a public records request last April and a judge recently decided that Alameda County must release records to this news organization revealing how many people at nursing homes and other long-term congregate care facilities were infected with COVID-19 and how many died, as well as the names of facilities with confirmed cases.
As the City of Hayward honors lives lost to COVID-19 over the next six days, it continues to provide no-fee COVID-19 testing from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at Skywest Golf Course, 1401 Golf Course Road, and weekly no-contact food distribution from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or until supplies run out every Thursday at Chabot College, Parking Lot J, 25555 Hesperian Boulevard.
For more info, go to the city’s COVID-19 resource portal here.
Reporter Annie Sciacca contributed to this report.
HAYWARD, CA – JANUARY 26: Hayward City Hall is illuminated in gold light with the words ÒWe RememberÓ projected on the building in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2020. The City of Hayward is honoring the 149 lives lost to COVID-19 in Hayward during the first year of the pandemic with a display of 149 American flags and a special lighting installation that began at sundown Monday and will last for 149 hours. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) 
HAYWARD, CA – JANUARY 26: A tribute to victims of COVID-19 is seen on Hayward City Hall in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2020. The City of Hayward is honoring the 149 lives lost to COVID-19 in Hayward during the first year of the pandemic with a display of 149 American flags and a special lighting installation that began at sundown Monday and will last for 149 hours. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) 
HAYWARD, CA – JANUARY 26: Hayward City Hall is illuminated in gold light with the words ÒWe RememberÓ projected on the building in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2020. The City of Hayward is honoring the 149 lives lost to COVID-19 in Hayward during the first year of the pandemic with a display of 149 American flags and a special lighting installation that began at sundown Monday and will last for 149 hours. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) 
HAYWARD, CA – JANUARY 26: Hayward City Hall is illuminated in gold light and adorned with flags as a tribute to COVID-19 victims in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2020. The City of Hayward is honoring the 149 lives lost to COVID-19 in Hayward during the first year of the pandemic with a display of 149 American flags and a special lighting installation that began at sundown Monday and will last for 149 hours. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
