{"id":8107,"date":"2025-02-26T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2025-02-27T03:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:50:30","slug":"city-of-ottawa-to-fly-flag-at-half-mast-march-11-marking-lives-lost-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/city-of-ottawa-to-fly-flag-at-half-mast-march-11-marking-lives-lost-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Ottawa to fly flag at half-mast March&nbsp;11 marking lives lost to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Ottawa will be marking five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic with a flag-lowering in March.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March&nbsp;11, 2020, triggering a wave of public health measures and restrictions on populations in an attempt to stop the spread of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,200 residents of Ottawa have died from COVID-19 according to public health statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Bay Ward Coun. Theresa Kavanagh moved a motion at City Council Wednesday calling on the City of Ottawa to join the federal government in designating March&nbsp;11 as a day of observance to commemorate the people who died, and the disruptions felt as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The city will be lowering a flag to half-mast outside the Heritage Building at Ottawa City Hall that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Ottawa will be marking five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic with a flag-lowering in March.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March&nbsp;11, 2020, triggering a wave of public health measures and restrictions on populations in an attempt to stop the spread of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,200 residents of Ottawa have died from COVID-19 according to public health statistics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/city-of-ottawa-to-fly-flag-at-half-mast-march-11-marking-lives-lost-to-covid-19\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City of Ottawa to fly flag at half-mast March&nbsp;11 marking lives lost to COVID-19<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,11,119,137,249,14],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8109,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}