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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 — There were 1,465 new laboratory-confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Greece over the last 24 hours, the National Public Health Organisation (NPHO) said on Sunday, of which 11 were intercepted during checks at the country's borders. The total number of patients admitted to hospital for Covid-19 over the same period was 65, while the number of patients in ICUs with Covid was 142 and five Covid-19 patients died.
This raises the total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic to 438,809 (daily change 0.3 pct) of which 51.2 pct were men. Based on the number of confirmed cases in the last seven days, 161 are considered linked to travel from abroad and 1,966 are linked to an already known case.
Of the patients in ICUs, 67.6 pct are men, while their median age was 66 years old and 86.6 pct have either an underlying disease or are aged over 70. Since the start of the pandemic, 2,736 patients have been discharged from ICUs.
The new hospital admissions showed a daily rate of change of -4.41 pct, with the rolling average for admissions in the last seven days at 61. The median age of new cases was 42 years old and the median age of people that died was 78 years old (ranging from 0.2 to 106 years old).
The total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic has risen to 12,792, of which 95.2 pct had either an underlying condition or were aged above 70 years old.
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.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.