Britain's Queen Elizabeth visits top-secret lab in first outing since lockdown

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Queen Elizabeth carried out her first major engagement since a coronavirus lockdown in March, visiting the Porton Down military research facility ...

LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II carried out her first major engagement since the United Kingdom's coronavirus lockdown began in March, visiting the Porton Down military research facility on Thursday .

Russian officials are also accused of using Novichok to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in August. Porton Down was founded in 1916 as Britain's chemical and biological weapons laboratory, where defence ministry scientists carried out secret experiments involving some 20,000 servicemen, leading to the death of one from exposure to sarin nerve gas.

 

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