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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 – Even while cases of COVID-19 gradually are declining, as are deaths, one of the members of a scientific panel advising on health protocols in Greece said a third lockdown isn’t out of the question if there’s a resurgence.
“It is not something that is imminent,” microbiology professor Alkiviadis Vatopoulos told SKAI TV as the Health Ministry’s daily bulletin on the course of the virus has shown new infections, intubations and deaths easing.
That has happened at a slower rate than hoped for as a second more lenient lockdown that began Nov. 7 is technically still on but almost everything has reopened except for bars, restaurants and taverns.
With fewer than 500 new infections a day and the number of patients in intensive care at under 300, the data show the virus is being contained, Vatopoulos indicated.
But also warned a variant found in the United Kingdom with several dozen cases showing in Greece, is the unknown catalyst that could tip the picture and bring tougher measures if it can’t be contained, even with the vaccines.
The new strain, he said, makes it harder to keep a delicate balance between restrictive measures and opening an economy battered by businesses being closed half the previous 10 months.
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.