LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Governor Gretchen Whitmer is asking Michiganders to turn on the lights outside their homes for an hour to remind thousands of people who died of COVID-19.
The remembrance will take place from 8 pm to 9 pm on Wednesday, a year after Michigan confirmed the first cases of coronavirus. Michigan saw more than 16,600 confirmed or probable deaths related to the disease and more than 658,000 infections – spurred by outbreaks last spring and autumn and winter.
Whitmer says that turning on the porch lights will “remind those we have lost and remind us that, even in times of darkness, we are in this together”.
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