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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 – Apparently fed up with defiance of health protocols aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19, the ruling New Democracy government has stepped up measures while police have fined individuals and businesses but no reports any were closed.
The Hellenic Police (ELAS) said there were 57,138 inspections around the country on Aug. 28 and 373 fines of 150 euros ($178.69) each for not wearing masks or not keeping a safe social distance of at least 1.5 meters (4.92 feet.)
Officers also recorded 13 infringements of safety regulations by private business. Since the beginning of August, a total of 454 such violations by businesses have been confirmed, leading to 28 arrests, said Kathimerini.
Authorities arrested a lawyer who violated quarantine orders by traveling to the island of Mykonos where he has a holiday house, the island being the scene of wild, giant parties among the young, turning it into a COVID-19 hot spot.
The lawyer had returned from abroad and was supposed to be isolated in a hotel in Athens after coming into contact with a patient that had tested positive for the Coronavirus but defied the quarantine, the paper said.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested on a bus in Athens for refusing to cooperate with police who told him to wear a mask. Greece has a contingent of anti-maskers and COVID-19 conspiracy theory groups who either believe it's a hoax or being used by secret cabals to control their minds, which apparently didn't work on them.
Passengers on an Aug. 25 flight from Zante on the Greek island of Zakynthos to Cardiff in Wales were told to isolate after it was found to be the source of at least seven cases, Public Health Wales said.
Giri Shankar, Incident Director for the COVID-19 outbreak at the agency said I a statement that investigations had found that the virus had spread to other groups of people because of “a lack of social distancing, in particular by a minority of the 20-30 year age group,” said Reuters, the report indicating yet another party,
That led Greece to impose travel restrictions on the island that is popular with hooligans and has seen frequent violence, including the murder of an American tourist, the government unable to control it yet.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.