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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 – After another 196 cases of COVID-19 and another death, Greece's New Democracy government, scrambling to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, issued more health protocols despite signs of continuing defiance.
The upward trend has worried the government and its panel of scientific and medical experts whose advice to bring an early lockdown on March 23, gradually lifted by the week starting May 4, held down the number of cases and deaths.
While enforcement and compliance has stepped up there are still scenes where people are refusing to wear masks in supermarkets and elsewhere indoors, and not staying the required distance of 1.5 meters (4.92 feet) apart.
Combined with wild parties on islands and open defiance on islands and lax police enforcement on the now locked down island of Poros where 30 cases were found, the increase in cases is showing an alarming level.
Among the new measures is the cancellation of the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair that was scheduled for September 13-15.
It was also announced that passengers flying to Greece from Sweden, Belgium, Spain, the Czech Republic and The Netherlands will, as of Aug. 17, be required to show a negative test conducted within 72 hours of travel, said Kathimerini.
A negative PCR test not older than 72 hours will be required for all visitors entering via Greece’s land borders although it wasn't said if that includes Greeks returning from vacations in other countries, especially The Balkans where there have been so many cases that residents are barred from Greece.
As of Aug. 17 there will be a ceiling on the number of entrants from the land border post of Kakavia – 750 people per day will be allowed to cross without any explanation why that couldn't also increase cases in Greece.
Every public event in which attendees stand, including concerts and performances, has been suspended throughout the country and until Aug. 23 bars and restaurants will have to close in many regions and islands including Crete, Thessaloniki, Halkidiki, Mykonos, Paros, Antiparos, Santorini, Rhodes, Kos, Corfu and Zakynthos.
As of Aug. 11, there were 5,749 cases with a big jump in August after the country opened to most tourists in July, apart from some like the United States and Russia where cases are nearly out of control.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.