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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 twice-extended second lockdown aimed at slowing the spread of a second wave of COVID-19 could see even tighter measures if there are signs it isn’t working.
The New Democracy government may decide to impose additional restrictions, “even unexpectedly,” to limit the spread of the coronavirus if it is deemed necessary, Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis said.
“You cannot rule out any measure. If we need to ban activities again, we will do so if necessary,” he told SKAI radio, with uncertainty now whether schools will reopen Jan. 11 along with a click-and-collect scheme letting consumers order goods online and make reservations for store pickups.
The government has gone back-and-forth about how to handle a resurgence of the pandemic, leading the major rival SYRIZA to accuse Mitsotakis of failing to respond properly and of bringing deaths in Thessaloniki earlier by being too slow to bring a second lockdown.
As Gerapetritis spoke, Greek health authorities announced 816 new coronavirus cases for Jan. 6, far higher than the previous days, showing signs that partial easing of the lockdown over the holidays is allowing another spread.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 142,267 confirmed cases, with 5,099 deaths, including 48 on Jan. 6, with 399 people on ventilators in almost overwhelmed public hospital Intensive Care Units (ICUs.)
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.