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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.
BERLIN — Switzerland has banned foreign nationals arriving from the U.K. and South Africa from entering the Alpine country and ordered those who arrived since Dec. 14 to go into quarantine amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant detected in those countries.
The Swiss government said Monday that the decision was taken “to prevent the further spread of this new virus strain.”
The decision by the non-European Union country bans air travel between Switzerland and the U.K. and South Africa.
The government said it is considering a temporary exemption for flights that would allow people currently in Switzerland but resident in the U.K. or South Africa to return home, and vice versa.
Switzerland said it gave the U.K. and South Africa prior notice of the measures.
No cases of the new strain have so far been identified in Switzerland, the Swiss government said.
