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Authorities conducted numerous forensic tests on Saturday seeking the source of a nerve agent that sickened two people suspected of having handled a contaminated object during the March attack against a former Russian spy and his daughter
A precautionary test in a hospital to check for possible contamination of the case, but the Wiltshire police said last Saturday that it had been cleaned up.
The man and woman poisoned a week ago are in critical condition at the Salisbury District Hospital. Sergei and Yulia Skripal spent months being treated after being poisoned
. The authorities said all four were sick of Novichok, a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Dawn Sturgess and her partner, Charley Rowley, aged 45, were exposed to the chemical weapon used in the attack against the Skripals
. bottle that can contain Novichok. It is a slow and laborious process because there is no easy way to use modern technology to locate the rare neurotoxic agent.
Officials said the research could take weeks or months. It has brought over 100 agents to Salisbury and the nearby town of Amesbury because the suspect sites are protected to protect the public from possible contamination.
The police officer clearly underwent "appropriate specialist testing," said Salisbury Hospital.
The hospital did not specify whether the unidentified officer could have been exposed to Novichok. But according to a statement, the officer first visited another hospital "as part of the ongoing incident in Amesbury", where the latest victims developed symptoms of poisoning at novichok agent.
The Salisbury Hospital has added members of the public who have come to the hospital with health problems since the beginning of this incident and no one needs treatment. "
" We wish to reiterate the opinion of Public Health England that the risk to the general public remains low, "said the hospital.
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