New York marks the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
The city holds its annual ceremony in memory of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the bloodiest terrorist attack in US history, punctuated by a minute's silence at the exact moments that Al-Qaeda jihadists crashed two hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center towers.
Almost two decades after the attacks, September 11 remains synonymous with New York's heroism and resilience.
City leaders have emphasized the latter in the past months as the Covid-19 infection rate -- which killed 23,000 people here, the early epicenter of the disease in the United States -- has been lowered to under one percent.
