Novichok patient no longer critical: UK hospital

A 45-year-old British man who was exposed to a high dose of the nerve agent Novichok is no longer in critical condition, the hospital treating him said on Wednesday. “He is no longer in a critical condition,” Lorna Wilkinson, director of nursing at Salisbury District Hospital in England, said in a statement. Wilkinson said Charlie Rowley’s condition had improve overnight and was now “serious, but stable”.