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Coronavirus: 'Parade Of Lights' Salutes Healthcare Workers
Police officers and firefighters showed their appreciation for healthcare workers with a "parade of lights" Tuesday morning in Mooresville.
MOORESVILLE, NC — Mooresville police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers showed their appreciation of local healthcare workers at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center. Tuesday morning with a "Parade of Lights."
The display of appreciation from officers and firefighers comes as cases of novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, continue to mount in Iredell County and the state.
As dawn began to break, members of the Mooresville Police Department, Mooresvile Fire-Rescue and Iredell County EMS, along with area volunteer fire departments drove through the Mooresville hospital complex around 7 a.m. during the morning shift change.
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While the event was not meant for the public, the Town of Mooresville livestreamed it on its Facebook page.
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"Thank you to the Town of Mooresville, our first responders, and all of those that are working on the front lives to fight this," commented Jennifer Butkovich Bosser.
Monday afternoon, there were at least 88 people in the county confirmed to be infected with COVID-19, and three related deaths, according to the Iredell County Health Department.
Over the weekend, a COVID-19 outbreak was reported at an Iredell County nursing home, according to county health officials. The Iredell long-term care facility is one of 37 nursing homes and 13 residential care facilities in the state reporting an outbreak as of Monday evening.
The number of COVID-19 cases in North Carolina increased to 6,764 and at least 179 people have died as a result of it, state officials said Monday.
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