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Alexei Navalny fell ill suddenly just over a month ago while on a flight in Russia. He was first treated in the Siberian city of Omsk, where Russian health officials claimed he had not been poisoned.
But eventually he could be taken to the Charité hospital in Berlin and according to analyzes by Swedish, German and French laboratories, he had been poisoned by the neurotoxin novitjok.
After more than two weeks in a coma, Navalny was able to wake up and has steadily improved since then. Now Charité affirms that he has recovered sufficiently and yesterday he was discharged from the hospital after a total of 32 days, of which 24 with intensive care.
“Based on the patient’s development and the current situation, doctors believe that full recovery is possible. However, it is too early to estimate the possible long-term effects of his severe poisoning. “, Charité writes, in a statement.
Russian authorities have yet to launch a formal criminal investigation, but Navalny’s own staff have taken care of the water bottles from the hotel room in which he lived the night before the poisoning, in which the neurotoxin was later discovered. Novitjok.
