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Taiwan’s Habit of Releasing Soldiers’ Full Names Seems Risky 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) consultant and an army nurse were parachuted to the island, which is normally only accessible by boat, while oxygen supplies and medical aid were also dropped.
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An RAF A400M transport aircraft flew from RAF Brize Norton to Ascension Island, supported by an RAF Voyager, before heading to Tristan da Cunha.
Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, is Britain’s most remote inhabited overseas territory. Accessible only by boat and with no airstrip, it has a population of just 221. It is the world’s most remote inhabited island, located more than 2,400km – a six-day boat voyage – from St Helena, its nearest inhabited neighbour.
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