WATCH: Washington National Cathedral tolls bell 700 times for COVID-19 deaths

The Washington National Cathedral honored the 700,000 people in the U.S. who have died of coronavirus by tolling the cathedral’s bell 700 times Tuesday evening.

The Bourdon bell tolled at 5 p.m., once for every 1,000 people who died.

It took about 70 minutes to complete the tolling.



Watch it below:

The last time the bell tolled for COVID-19 victims was in June, when 600,000 had died of the virus.

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Colleen Kelleher

Colleen Kelleher is an award-winning journalist who has been with WTOP since 1996. Kelleher joined WTOP as the afternoon radio writer and night and weekend editor and made the move to WTOP.com in 2001. Now she works early mornings as the site's Senior Digital Editor.

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