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The National Covid Memorial Wall in London is a public mural painted by volunteers to commemorate victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Started in March 2021 and stretching more than one-third mile (five hundred metres) along the South Bank of the River Thames, opposite the Palace of Westminster, the mural consists of approximately 240,000 red and pink hearts, one for each of the casualties of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom who died with COVID-19 on their death certificate. The intent was for each heart to be "individually hand-painted; utterly unique, just like the loved ones we’ve lost".
South Bank COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom Palace of Westminster United Kingdom London River Thames