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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.
NICOSIA – Stepping up tough measures against the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak, Cyprus said it would check passengers from four more countries coming to the island: Italy, South, Korea, Japan and Iran.
Those have shown a spreading of the deadly disease, which in Italy has been confined so far to northern regions as Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said two more facilities will be opened a quarantine centers for people without symptoms but who were considered to be at risk, The Cyprus Mail reported.
He said after a meeting with the epidemiological surveillance unit that officials had three weeks earlier put in place a place to deal with the virus with anxiety ramping up that it could spread.
There were no reported plans, however, to bar passengers from the four countries where there have been infections and deaths to assess the situation and the latest developments as regards the virus, the minister said Cyprus already prepared a plan to tackle an epidemic if necessary, three weeks ago.
The government, he said, is sticking to World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) protocols and guidelines but decided to add travelers from the four countries.
He said they will be asked to fill questionnaires, and depending on their answers, necessary protocols will be activated and that airlines were asked to report cases presenting symptoms similar to those of the Covid 19 from any flight.
“The Health Ministry is constantly standing by and alert,” Ioannou said although that hasn’t fully calmed people worried about an outbreak hitting.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.