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Greek journalist pushed out of job after probing COVID-19 report

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Leading Greek journalist Dimitra Kroustalli said that she had been forced to resign from her post at the newspaper To Vima following “strangling pressure” from the cabinet of the Greek prime minister over a damaging report she wrote about the flaws in the systems used to track and monitor COVID-19 cases.

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