9 Sep 2025

The case for a national Covid memorial 

From Nights, 8:35 pm on 9 September 2025

Most small towns have some sort of dedication to those who lost their lives in the First or Second World War . . .there are others as well - monuments to different tragedies, successes and moments in our history.

So is it time for a memorial dedicated to those who died during the Covid-19 pandemic? 

Dunedin writer and novelist Fiona Farrell thinks so and has written an opinion piece on Newsroom.co.nz putting forward her argument for one here in Aotearoa. She joins Emile Donovan.

A woman draws red hearts representing individual coronavirus deaths onto the National Covid-19 Memorial Wall in London, England, on March 30, 2021.

A woman draws red hearts representing individual coronavirus deaths onto the National Covid-19 Memorial Wall in London, England, on March 30, 2021. Photo: David Cliff / NurPhoto via AFP