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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 – A worldwide effort is underway to map the characteristics of the new 2019-nCoV coronavirus, Vice Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Director of the Laboratory of Microbiology at the Medical School, Professor Athanasios Tsakris, said on Tuesday in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency’s (ANA) radio station Praktoreio 104.9 FM.
He explained that efforts are being made to find out its incubation time, how fast it spreads, and what its capacity to kill is.
Tsakris said that new cases are already being recorded in Europe almost daily – most of them imported from China, of course, with very few cases contracted within the countries involved. Greece may have less contact with and fewer travelers from China or the areas where the situation is progressing than other parts of Europe, but the virus continues to be a real danger and therefore measures are being taken, he added.
Asked what the key is for limiting its spread, he said: “China is now focused on slowing the rate at which it spreads. Based on the current data, this virus can also be spread by patients that present a mild clinical picture.”
Tsakris noted that the virus can also be transmitted during the period incubation, before the patient exhibits any symptoms. He underlined that the symptoms are similar to those of flu, as there are many common traits between flu and the new virus. In practice, he added, the same precautionary measures apply for coronavirus, as with flu. “In this case, of course, there is no vaccine, there is no special immunity for the population, he added.
Asked whether it is safe to travel, he replied: the precautions should be even more intensive for those planning to travel to areas where the epidemic is developing – there is a recommendation to avoid travel to all those areas – but if absolutely necessary, there must be stringent adoption of respiratory hygiene and protection from respiratory complaints.
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.