{"id":33852,"date":"2026-04-01T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/londons-covid-memorial-wall-keeps-vigil-in-front-of-parliament-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:58:40","slug":"londons-covid-memorial-wall-keeps-vigil-in-front-of-parliament-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/londons-covid-memorial-wall-keeps-vigil-in-front-of-parliament-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"London’s COVID memorial wall keeps vigil in front of Parliament: NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Six years ago in the spring, as COVID-19 cases surged in remote China, Britain was torn between sealing off the country and allowing daily life to continue in its unsettling state. For those who lived through it, those weeks \u2013 and the months that followed \u2013 were a strange state of turmoil.<\/p>\n

Today, that collective experience remains etched in London’s landscape. Built by ordinary citizens in 2021, the 1,640-foot-long National Covid Memorial Wall stretches along the banks of the River Thames just opposite Parliament, as if keeping watch over the country’s corridors of power.<\/p>\n