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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 — Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday pointed out the need to support the national health system and the people fighting the battle against Covid-19 on the frontline, providing both moral and material support, given that the pandemic was not over. Tsipras made the statements after his meeting with the board and employees of the General Hospital of Katerini in Pieria.
He said that there must be immediate and real support for the national health system and he also referred to the vaccination effort. Tsipras noted that, based on the indications to date and even though the vaccine is essential, it will not have created a sufficient wall of immunity within the population by March. "It is a huge mistake to create the expectation and complacency that the end of the pandemic will come with the vaccinations," he said, warning that cultivating unrealistically high expectations could act as a boomerang, becoming anger and rage.
He said that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had promised to have two million vaccines within January but, in actual fact, no more than 200,000 citizens will have been vaccinated by the end of January and, based on the number of doses foreseen for Greece until now, only 600,000 citizens will be vaccinated by the end of March. This meant that Greece will still have four to 4.5 very difficult months ahead.
Tsipras also spoke of the Covid-19 cases in the region of Pieria and in northern Greece generally, saying that the two previous months were very punishing and that conditions continue to be extremely difficult.
He said that the hospital of Katerini has been pushed beyond its limits, adding that the assessment is not good. "One hundred and sixty-nine people died in Pieria, which has a population of 125,000 and this is a big number," he said.
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.