{"id":52873,"date":"2021-03-23T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=52873"},"modified":"2021-03-23T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:40:48","slug":"cardiff-remembers-landmarks-to-be-lit-yellow-for-covid-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2021\/03\/23\/cardiff-remembers-landmarks-to-be-lit-yellow-for-covid-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff remembers: Landmarks to be lit yellow for Covid victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Covid commemoration to be broadcast this evening<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

LANDMARKS across Cardiff are due to be lit yellow this evening, as the city marks one year of Covid lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buildings including Cardiff Castle, City Hall, the Principality Stadium and the Senedd will be illuminated in memory of the dead, following a campaign by \u201cCovid-19 Families Wales\u201d, a Facebook group for families bereaved by the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea Williams, an organiser within the group, said that the colour yellow was chosen in reference to the tradition of tying a yellow ribbon around a tree when waiting for a loved one to return from war. She believes that this date should become an annual day of remembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the anniversary today, she says: \u201cWe should reflect on the fact that these are loved ones we have lost, they are not just numbers and statistics reported on the news – they are real people who have loved, and are loved, and the impact on those left without them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea lost her husband Mark Williams, 58, to Covid in April last year. She says that he was fit and healthy before contracting the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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