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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 1,381 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, with one of these identified at entry points to the country, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) reported on Wednesday.
Greece has confirmed 405,542 infections from the start of the pandemic (daily change: +0.3 pct). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 37 infections are related to travel from abroad and 1,863 to other confirmed cases.
There are also 23 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 12,145. Of these, 95.2 pct had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
A total of 486 patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 67 years and 86.4 pct have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more. Another 2,462 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
In addition, 198 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change of a +14.45 pct). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 194.
The median age of new infections is 44 years, while the median age of the deceased is 78.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
NEW YORK (AP) — George Brett watched the Kansas City Royals prepare to face the New York Yankees and remembered the combustible clashes of the 1970s.
Relentless Israeli airstrikes pounded Beirut's southern suburbs overnight and closed off the main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, forcing fleeing civilians to cross the border by foot.
Obie Williams said he could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he spoke with his daughter on the phone last week as Hurricane Helene tore through her rural Georgia town.
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans to return Saturday to the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, setting aside what are now near-constant worries for his physical safety in order to fulfill a promise — “really an obligation,” he said recently — to the people of Butler, Pennsylvania.