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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 – After essentially ending COVID-19 health restrictions to lure tourists, and with most of society walking around free of measures, Greece won’t make masks mandatory for students returning to school in September.
That is despite the persistent pandemic that is still making people ill, being hospitalized and dying although the look is of a pre-Coronavirus period with masks shunned by most and anti-vaxxers allowed to go wherever they want.
Health Minister Thanos Plevris said that despite earlier indications that students would have to wear masks in classrooms that they won’t be forced to do so but can voluntarily.
“We do not wish to introduce additional measures … Any new measures should be mild,” Plevris said, reported Kathimerini. “I believe that masking must remain a recommendation and not an order,” he said.
He also said there won’t be mandatory regular Coronavirus screening for students and staff in favor of “targeted” COVID-19 tests, the paper said, as did Education Minister Niki Kerameus earlier.
Health authorities announced 55,769 COVID cases and 258 deaths for the week from Aug. 15-22, a rate of almost 37 a day, bringing the total since the pandemic’s start in March 2020 to 32,335 fatalities and rising.
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.
Manufacturers and shippers are scrambling to figure out where they can load or unload cargo while the main operations of the Port of Baltimore remain shut down due to Tuesday's deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III on Thursday stressed the importance of friendship and acts of caring in a recorded message delivered to a traditional pre-Easter church service, which the monarch skipped as he continues to undergo cancer treatment.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Win against Arsenal on Sunday and Manchester City's path to a record fourth straight English Premier League title becomes clearer.
According to Numerator’s 2023 Holiday Preview Survey, as many as 85% of Americans plan to buy candy, food, and other gifts for this year’s Easter celebration.