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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 935 new coronavirus infections on Friday, of which 47 relate to known clusters and 44 were identified at entry points to the country.
The infections total 29,992 since the pandemic first broke out in Greece, of whom 3,828 relate to travel abroad and 11,532 to already known cases.
Another 91 patients are intubated in hospitals. Their median age is 66 years and 93.4 pct has an underlying condition or is aged 70 or more. Thirty are women. So far 270 patients have been discharged from ICUs.
In addition, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) registered another 5 deaths, bringing the pandemic's toll in Greece to 564. Of the deceased, their median age was 79 years and 96.3 pct had an underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or more. Also, 213 were women.
The government's most recent protective measures against the coronavirus' second wave of dispersal in Greece were published in the Government Gazette on Saturday.
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.