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How Greece crushed the COVID pandemic and is keeping it at bay

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"At the time, people were not aware of the economic pain that this would actually entail, but we did succeed in crushing the epidemic during its early stages." Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tells Ian Bremmer how a country that was only just recovering from a crippling economic crisis managed to mount a quick and effective response to the coronavirus and how it has continued to keep it at bay. But as winter comes, will he be able to keep the virus from spreading? Mitsotakis spoke with Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

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