Uniting in ringing a bell at 7 p.m. every Wednesday, Ocean County people would be supporting each other during COVID-19. That is one woman’s plan. The call to action has become regionally viral online.

It’s an effort to “bring residents together during this emergency,” said yoga teacher Tara Christina Marqua, 28, who grew up in Barnegat Light and Connecticut and now is a mother of two young children in Mystic Island.