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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 — The National Organisation for Public Health on Saturday announced a total of 267 new confirmed cases of SARS-Cov-2 in the country, of which 22 were linked to known gatherings and 25 were detected at the entrances into the country. There were seven new deaths from Covid-19 recorded in the last 24 hours.
The new cases bring the total in Greece to 19,613, of which 55.8 pct are men. Of this total, 3,019 (15.4 pct) are linked to travel abroad and 8,025 (40.9 pct) are linked to another known case.
There are 79 people currently on ventilators, whose median age is 69 years old. Of these, 24 are women (30.4 pct) and 86.1 pct have either an underlying condition or are aged above 70 years old. A total of 219 patients have been discharged from ICUs.
The new deaths bring the total in Greece to 405, of which 152 (37.5 pct) are women. The median age of those that have died was 78 and 96.3 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.