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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 confirmed 3,727 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Friday, bringing all confirmed infections since the pandemic began to 3,439,773 (daily change: +0.1 pct).
Of the daily total, reinfections are estimated at 419 in the last 24 hours, while their total since the pandemic began is estimated at 134,171 (3.8 pct of the total positive results).
There are also 14 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 29,771. Of these, 95.6 pct had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
A total of 133 patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 72 years and 91.7 pct have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over. Of the total, 61 (45.86 pct) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated and 72 (54.14 pct) are fully vaccinated.
Another 4,676 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
In addition, 95 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: 1.06 pct). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 85.
The median age of new infections is 36 years (range: 0.2 to 112 years), while the median age of the deceased is 78 (range: 0.2 to 106 years).
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.
LONDON - A British Airways flight that started in Athens on January 3 just missed hitting a drone over the Kent countryside in England, coming within 5 feet at a height of 9,600 feet, the plane carrying 180 passengers and traveling 250 miles an hour.
It won’t pass through some French cities and towns that didn’t want it but the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will be lit April 16 in Olympia by priestesses wearing outfits that some on social media found weren’t just right.
ATHENS - There were no injuries nor damage reported despite its intensity as a 5.
LONDON, UK – Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark is set to marry her lawyer fiancé this fall in Athens, according to media reports – “after the couple previously postponed their wedding date twice,” Tatler reported, noting that Theodora, “who was born in London, started dating Matthew Kumar in 2016, with the couple announcing their engagement in November 2018.