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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 – Minors are carriers of the Coronavirus and could be a portal for transmitting mutations and variations of COVID-19, said the head of Greece’s National Vaccination Committee, Maria Theodoridou.
She said that’s another reason why they should be vaccinated against the virus that’s still spreading because of rabid anti-vaxxers refusing to be inoculated and the New Democracy government saying they won’t be forced to get the shots.
Theodoridou cited the results of a study in children and adolescents with COVID-19 in Massachusetts in the United States which showed that, according to molecular testing and cultures of respiratory secretions, children can carry high levels of live, replicating SARS-CoV-2 and viral loads are no different to those among adults, said Kathimerini.
With the government recommending booster shots – a third for most people who got a version requiring two initial shots – she said that those who got the single-shot Johnson & Johnson strain from the US should get a second as a booster, saying it increases the effectiveness to 90 percent from 70 percent.
conducted, the administration of an additional jab, which can be done two months after the initial vaccination, increases the effectiveness of the vaccine from 70% to 90%.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
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.