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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 government expects to hear from medical associations regarding its appeal for private doctors to temporarily assist the public healthcare system in the fight against Covid on Monday evening, at which time there will be a final assessment of the response, government spokesperson Yiannis Oikonomou said on Monday.
Depending on the shortages that remain, the health ministry is ready to begin a process on Tuesday to requisition the services of private doctors for state hospitals, he added.
He also announced that monoclonal antibody drugs would now be available in Greece according to the treatment protocols developed by experts, following their approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Oikonomou noted that state hospitals currently had 1,277 ICU beds, more than double those available in 2019, while there was already cooperation with the private sector for the hospital treatment of both non-covid and covid cases. He noted that more than 400 beds have been offered by private clinics in central and northern Greece for Covid cases and another 231 for non-covid cases, while all private ICUs were at the disposal of the national health system.
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.