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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 – The in-person operation of schools is of vital importance for health, psychological and social reasons and this is the European trend. Our main provision is the safeguarding of public health and guaranteeing the operation of the economy and of education,” government spokesperson Yiannis Oikonomou stated, opening his briefing to the press on Monday.
He said that over one million people have been tested, the highest number of tests until today, with 15,547 infections reported so far that would circulate in the community without knowing they are infected and spread the virus.
The main parameter to intercept the spread of the virus is the mass conduct of diagnostic tests. Greece, according to the latest ECDC data is ranked 1st among the EU countries in terms of the number of tests for the novel coronavirus, Oikonomou said.
Regarding the National Health System, he underlined that besides the rapid increase in new infections due to the Omicron variant, the infections, according to the latest data, are pressing the health system mostly for beds but also for ICU beds, as there are still a number of patients infected with the Delta variant that need to be treated in 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.