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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 761 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, with 1 of these identified at entry points to the country, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) reported on Thursday.
Greece has confirmed 423,185 infections from the start of the pandemic (daily change: +0.2 pct). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 93 infections are related to travel from abroad and 677 to other confirmed cases.
There are also 4 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 12,710. Of these, 95.2 pct had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
A total of 189 patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 67 years and 84.1 pct have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more. Another 2,689 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
In addition, 38 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change of a +2.7 pct). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 41.
The median age of new infections is 43 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.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.