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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 – With attention focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the effects on an economic recovery, the COVID-19 pandemic is still proving dangerous and deadly in Greece, including for the young.
Nearly a third of those infected were 4-18 years old, although almost all the deaths were of the unvaccinated elderly and those with multiple or underlying conditions although the vaccination program has pushed back the pandemic.
Figures from the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) showed that there were 30,899 cases of COVID from Feb. 26-March 6 and that there was a positivity rate of 5.31 percent found among 1,945,947 molecular tests.
There were also another 1,982 patients admitted to hospitals but there were 2,015 COVID cases released, in a further encouraging sign and hope that the beginning of the end might be in sight this year, the pandemic’s third.
There were 23,335 cases on March 9 and 61 virus-related deaths, said Kathimerini, reporting that there were 360 patients on ventilators in public hospital Intensive Care Units (ICUs) with the numbers now beginning to slow.
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.