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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 — Greece's public health services and hospitals are still under strong pressure from the novel coronavirus, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said in statements to the SKAI media network on Monday. According to the skai.gr website, Kikilias noted that the country has been in lockdown for a month and that, "out of a total of 1,305 ICU beds that we have [throughout Greece], 1,083 COVID and non-COVID beds were currently occupied". He also repeated that 7,000 healthcare staff have been hired to cope with the situation, at the orders of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
According to the same website, Kikilias expressed the concern and worry of the government and scientists about the pandemic in Greece because, as he said, the spread of the virus in the community continues to be high, health services are under pressure, doctors are tired, while scientists around the world are talking about a third wave of the pandemic.
Kikilias reiterated that the vaccine will be safe and will have been tested by international agencies for medicinal drugs, while it will be offered free of charge and will not be obligatory.
For those unable to go to vaccination centres, such as people with disabilities, Kikilias said that special teams will be set up that will go to them to administer the vaccine.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.