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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 3,225 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, with 7 of these identified at entry points to the country, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Sunday.
Since the pandemic began, Greece has confirmed 1,002,877 infections (daily change: +0.3 pct). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 88 infections are related to travel from abroad and 2,730 to other confirmed cases.
There are also 90 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 19,248. Of these, 95.3 pct had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or over.
A total of 708 patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 64 years and 79.0 pct have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or over. Of the total, 570 (80.51 pct) are unvaccinated or partly vaccinated and 138 (19.49 pct) are fully vaccinated.
Another 3,613 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
In addition, 407 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change: +15.3 pct). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 400.
The median age of new infections is 38 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.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.