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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 — After three doctors of the second pathology oncological clinic of the Aghios Savvas General Cancer/Oncology Hospital in Athens were found to be infected with Covid-19, a thorough disinfection of all the premises has been carried out and extensive contact tracing among staff, doctors and patients initiated in the specific clinic and the Orthopaedic Clinic, health ministry sources said on Thursday.
According to the same sources, a total of 15 cases were identified among the staff while four patients have also tested positive.
The 15 confirmed cases among the staff with mild or no symptoms will stay at home, while another 25 staff members are also self-isolating as a precaution.
The four patients were sent to the COVID referral hospital Amalia Fleming, while the 2nd Pathology Oncological Clinic has stopped admissions of new patients for a week, with patients transferred to the 1st Clinic.
All patients are continuing their chemotherapy as normal and rapid tests were carried out on all the hospital's 1,200 members of staff on Thursday morning.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
NEW YORK (AP) — George Brett watched the Kansas City Royals prepare to face the New York Yankees and remembered the combustible clashes of the 1970s.
Relentless Israeli airstrikes pounded Beirut's southern suburbs overnight and closed off the main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, forcing fleeing civilians to cross the border by foot.
Obie Williams said he could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he spoke with his daughter on the phone last week as Hurricane Helene tore through her rural Georgia town.
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans to return Saturday to the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, setting aside what are now near-constant worries for his physical safety in order to fulfill a promise — “really an obligation,” he said recently — to the people of Butler, Pennsylvania.