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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 – Greek health care workers required to be vaccinated or be suspended without pay will need two weekly COVID-19 tests if they haven’t gotten booster shots yet.
There are some 10,000 of them among 324,000 people in the country whose vaccination certificates expired Feb. 7 unless they had a booster as well, which is a third shot, except for those who had a single-shot version from the American company Johnson & Johnson.
The health care workers will have to pay for their own rapid tests which can cost up to 10 euros ($11.42) for each, which would make their monthly costs as much as 80 euros ($91.35) until they get a booster.
The only other sector in Greece required to be vaccinated is those over 60 who are being fined 100 euros ($114.19) until they do, amount taken out of monthly benefits for pensioners, no word how it’s done for wage earners.
Health Minister Thanos Plevris said the health care workers who haven’t had a booster shot can keep working and won’t be suspended, said Kathimerini, although those unvaccinated at will be fired starting April 1.
“No one is putting those who have received two doses in the same position as those who have not been vaccinated at all,” he said, adding that “those who have received two doses of the vaccine are also vaccinated,” but unrecognized.
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.
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.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.