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Austrian doctors speak out after suicide of GP following Covid threats

People attend a candlelit vigil in Vienna in memory of doctor Lisa-Maria Kellermayr
People attend a candlelight vigil in Vienna in memory of Lisa-Maria Kellermayr. Photograph: Alex Halada/AFP/Getty Images

Austrian medical representatives have called for greater protection for doctors after a GP who faced months of violent threats from anti-vaccination activists and pandemic conspiracy theorists took her own life.

Lisa-Maria Kellermayr was found dead in her practice in the lakeside resort of Seewalchen am Attersee on Friday. Prosecutors told the media they found three suicide notes and were not planning to carry out an autopsy.

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