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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 808 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, with 3 of these identified at entry points to the country, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) reported on Monday.
Greece has confirmed 410,166 infections from the start of the pandemic (daily change: +0.2 pct). In the confirmed cases of the last 7 days, 38 infections are related to travel from abroad and 1,681 to other confirmed cases.
There are also 24 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of pandemic victims to 12,301. Of these, 95.2 pct had an underlying condition and/or were 70 years old.
A total of 392 patients are on ventilators in hospitals. Their median age is 67 years and 86.5 pct have an underlying condition and/or are aged 70 or more. Another 2,510 have been discharged from ICUs since the pandemic began.
In addition, 129 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours (daily change of a -22.29 pct). The average admission of patients with Covid-19 to hospitals over the last 7 days was 159.
The median age of new infections is 43 years, while the median age of the deceased is 78.
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.