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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 – Despite seeing many people dying in front of them from COVID-19, many Greek hospital workers – including doctors and nurses – don't want to be vaccinated and are protesting the New Democracy government's making it required.
Those who refuse will be suspended on unpaid leave for as long as the pandemic lasts but not fired under the decision that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made reluctantly after he said he couldn't force them to do so, but then did.
The front-line health car workers said they would take to the streets in a rally on the morning of July 27, almost certain to be a futile gesture as the decision has already been made to spur a stalling vaccination drive.
Dubbed Eleftheria (Freedom) the campaign has seen only a little less than half the country's population of 10.7 million people fully inoculated, far less than the 70 percent needed to slow and beat back the Coronavirus that's surging again because of the even more contagious Delta Variant from India.
The rally in front of the Health Ministry has been planned by the Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors (OENGE) whose officials want to meet with Minister Vassilis Kikilias, a former professional basketball player with no health experience.
The newspaper Kathimerini said OENGE will escalate protests after the mid-summer August break as the workers will be required by the end of the month to make appointments to get shots or face suspension unless the decision is overturned.
The Panhellenic Federation of Hospital Workers (POEDIN) said it supports the move to reverse the order requiring staff at hospitals and care homes be placed on unpaid leave if they refuse to be vaccinated, with reports other public workers could be next if the vaccination drive keeps sputtering this summer.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.