British paratroopers land on Tristan da Cunha for suspected hantavirus case
Soldiers dropped oxygen supplies and medical aid to Britain’s most remote overseas territory
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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.
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.
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