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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 – With Greece in a second wave of COVID-19 and cases and deaths rising despite more health measures put in place, so many people are seeking tests for the Coronavirus that the country has run out of reagents needed for the process.
The National Blood Center said it was temporarily suspending testing, without the needed supplies to conduct them. It conducts around 1,000 of some 13,000 daily tests nationwide said Kathimerini.
Deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis said the shortage of reagents was due to the mass return of vacationing health workers – who must be tested before they can return to work – and said tests will resume at the center Sept. 8.
There were another 241 cases on Sept. 3 in a 24-hour period, including 31 at entry points as tourists have brought infections into the country with them since being allowed to enter beginning in July, although far fewer came than was hoped for.
That brought the total cases to 10,998, with 2,174 are linked to travel abroad and 4,843 to an already registered case, adding to growing worries the phenomenon can't be stopped yet.
A 75-year-old man who was infected at a wedding in Larissa in August, although people were warned against mass public gatherings, died in a hospital there almost a month after being admitted, doctors saying underlying health issues proved deadly.
He was the third fatality from among more than 17 people who were infected at a wedding bash in the Larissa village of Ambelonas, the other two victims being 85 and 89, the latest death bringing the toll to 279 with the elderly especially susceptible.
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 (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.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.