Alexei Navalny out of induced coma and is responsive, says Berlin hospitalThe Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been taken out of an induced coma and is responding to speech, the German hospital treating him has said, as the UK summoned the Russian ambassador to express its concern. Navalny fell ill on a flight last month and was treated in a Siberian hospital before being evacuated to Berlin. Novichok agents work in a similar way, by massively over-stimulating muscles and glands. According to Mirzayanov, they are 10 to 100 times more toxic than conventional nerve agents. The German government later said toxicology results showed Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

Source: The Guardian September 07, 2020 13:40 UTC