There is, on the evidence currently, a very low risk.” Dr. Jenny Harries of Public Health England said at a news conference. Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter, Yulia, 33, were found comatose on a bench near the Zizzi restaurant and The Mill pub on March 4. Several hundred people would have been in the Salisbury establishments that day and the day after, Harries said. In Moscow, a former neighbor of Skripal said that if the Russian government had wanted the ex-spy dead, he would have already been killed in Russia. In Salisbury, a medieval city near the ancient monument of Stonehenge where Skripal lived, health officials tried to reassure the public.

Source: Indian Express March 12, 2018 09:00 UTC