British Paratroopers Deploy to Remote Island for Hantavirus Mission
British paratroopers landed on Tristan da Cunha, the UK's most remote inhabited territory, to support medical personnel responding to a suspected hantavirus case. The mission involved delivering medical supplies and oxygen to the isolated island.
British paratroopers landed on a “golf course covered in rocks” to supply medical personnel and oxygen to Britain’s most remote overseas territory as it deals with a suspected hantavirus case, an army commander said on Sunday. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday that a British national had disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius to the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, where they live, with a suspected case of hantavirus. Six paratroopers, a Royal Air Force (RAF)...