Army parachutes onto remote island to help Briton with suspected hantavirus
Key takeaways
- The man left MV Hondius, the cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the virus, in mid-April at Britain's most remote inhabited overseas territory, where he lives.
- He first reported symptoms two weeks after leaving the vessel and is said be in a stable condition while isolating.
- Oxygen was also dropped from an RAF A400M on Saturday, with supplies at a "critical level" on the island, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
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Lauren Turner BBC News Minstry of Defence Medical supplies were dropped onto the remote island, which has no airstrip and a population of just 221British Army medics have parachuted on to the remote Atlantic island of Tristan de Cunha to help a British national with suspected hantavirus.
The man left MV Hondius, the cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the virus, in mid-April at Britain's most remote inhabited overseas territory, where he lives.
He first reported symptoms two weeks after leaving the vessel and is said be in a stable condition while isolating. Six cases of the virus have now been confirmed, including of two other Britons currently being treated off the ship.