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Revelations of distorted corona virus tallies have caused growing controversy in Greece reports our correspondent Helena Smith in Athens.
Figures released by the government nightly have been slammed for not reflecting the truth after reports of mismanagement by the national public health organisation, EODY.
Dr Antony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, has delivered a bleak warning that the country has not yet seen the post-Thanksgiving coronavirus peak amid record-breaking numbers of cases.
“It is likely we’ll see more of a surge as we get two or three weeks past the Thanksgiving holiday [on 26 November] … the thing that concerns me is that abuts right on the Christmas holiday as people start to travel and shop and congregate,” he told NBC News’ Today.
