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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 — Greece registered 8 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours and no fatalities since Saturday, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) reported on Wednesday.
The total number of cases is 3,310, of whom 55 pct are men. Of the total, 730 are people who were infected abroad and 1,848 were infected by already known cases.
Eight Greeks are intubated in hospitals, of whom 7 are men, and the average age of all ICU patients is 61 years. A 75 pct suffers from underlying conditions and/or is aged 70 or over.
Another 118 patients have been discharged from ICUs since the start of the outbreak.
The deaths total stands at 190. The median age of all the deceased was 76 years and 60 of them were women. A total of 95.8 pct suffered from an underlying health condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
Some 295,639 diagnostic tests for Covid-19 have been carried out in Greece since January 1, of which 5,367 (1.8 pct) were positive. The total numbers include repeat tests for individuals.
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.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.