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Austrian health minister says he is stepping down, exhausted

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Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober of the Greens, the junior partner in the conservative-led coalition, said on Tuesday he is stepping down, exhausted and sick from battling the coronavirus pandemic and occasionally other officials.

"In the worst health crisis in decades the republic needs a health minister who is 100 percent fit. That is not currently me," he said, describing blood pressure problems... 

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