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Navalny condition improved, ‘able to leave bed’: Berlin hospital
BERLIN, Sept 15, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s condition is improving and he is able to get out of bed for brief periods, the German hospital treating him said Monday.
“The patient has been successfully removed from mechanical ventilation,” Berlin’s Charite hospital said in a statement. “He is currently undergoing mobilisation and is able to leave his bed for short periods of time.”
Two European laboratories have corroborated German findings that Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, Berlin said on Monday, increasing pressure on the Kremlin to shed light on the incident.
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