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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 2,919 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, with 10 of these identified at entry points to the country, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Tuesday.
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 620,355 infections (daily change: +0.6 pct). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 141 infections are related to travel from abroad and 2,537 to other confirmed cases.
There are also 31 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 14,268. Of these, 95.4 pct had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
A total of 369 patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 64 years and 80.8 pct have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over. Of the total patients, 332 (89.97 pct) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated and 37 (10.03 pct) are fully vaccinated.
Another 3,061 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
In addition, 205 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: +12.02 pct). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 205.
The median age of new infections is 39 years (range: 0.2 to 106 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.
DENVER (AP) — One person was killed and 12 people were rescued after being trapped for about six hours at the bottom of a former Colorado gold mine when an elevator malfunctioned at the tourist site, authorities said.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 230 migrants reached Greece in small boats over the past two days, including a rare case of a crossing from north Africa to Greece's southern mainland, authorities said Friday.
Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms hitting Earth produced stunning skies full of pinks, purples, greens and blues farther south than normal, including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City.
NEW YORK – One of Greece's most popular stand-up comedians, Giorgos Xatzipavlou, is heading to North America for a four-city tour in November.
ΑΤΗΕΝS - The Victoria Karelias Collection of Traditional Greek Costumes welcomes, on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, a unique exhibition entitled “From Avgi to Myrtis and from Myrtis to the present: the clothes narrate”.