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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 registered 2,405 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, with 14 of these identified at entry points to the country, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Friday.
Greece has confirmed 217,018 infections from the start of the pandemic (daily change: +1.1 pct). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 59 infections are considered related to travel from abroad and 1,881 to already confirmed cases.
There are also 521 patients on ventilators in hospitals, with 67.4 pct of them being men. Their median age is 67 years and 83.5 pct have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more. Another 1,472 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
In the last 24 hours, 464 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital, a reduction of 7.39 pct since the previous day. The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals was 417 patients over the last 7 days.
There are also 49 new confirmed deaths, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 6,986. Of these, 95.8 pct had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
The median age of new infections on Thursday was 44, while the median age of the deceased was 79.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.