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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 broke the four-digit ceiling with 1,259 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Tuesday, surpassing a hundred intubated patients for the first time as well, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said.
Monday's new cases totalled 715.
Of the day's new cases, 112 are linked to known clusters and 62 are a result of checks at the country's entry points. They bring the total of all infections in Greece since the start to 32,752 of which 3,950 relate to travel abroad and 12,381 to already known cases.
At Greek hospitals, 102 patients have been intubated. Their median age is 65 years, 96.1 pct have an underlying condition or are aged 70 o more, and 33 are women. Another 277 patients have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic's start.
EODY also announced 12 confirmed deaths, or 593 fatalities in total in Greece. The median age of all the deceased so far was 79 years and 96.1 pct had some underlying condition and/or were aged 70 or more. Of the total, 225 were women.
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.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.