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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS — Twenty new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Greece on Tuesday, bringing the total official cases to 3,409 since the outbreak.
Of the total, 54.9 pct are men, 766 are related to travel abroad and 1,900 are related to another known case, the National Public Health Organization said.
Nine Greeks are hospitalized in ICUs; three are women, and the median age for all is 58 years. An 88.9 pct has an underlying condition or is aged 70+. A total of 118 patients have been discharged from ICUs since the outbreak began.
In addition, one more death was recorded since Monday, bringing the fatalities to 192. Of these, 61 were women, and their median age was 76 years. The majority (95.8 pct) had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70+.
Since January 1 to the present, a total of 312,775 tests have been carried out for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), with 1.8 pct of these (5,508) testing positive. The total includes retestings of the same person.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.