{"id":33306,"date":"2026-05-11T05:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/33306\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:21:17","slug":"paratroopers-jump-onto-britains-most-remote-inhabited-island-for-hantavirus-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/33306\/","title":{"rendered":"Paratroopers jump onto Britain\u2019s most remote inhabited island for hantavirus mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">British paratroopers landed on a \u201cgolf course covered in rocks\u201d to supply medical personnel and oxygen to Britain\u2019s most remote overseas territory as it deals with a suspected hantavirus case, an army commander said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An RAF A400M transport aircraft flew from RAF Brize Norton to Ascension Island, supported by an RAF Voyager, before heading to Tristan da Cunha.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paratroopers pose for a photo to signal mission success. Photo: UK MOD via AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/90e9cdfd-31d7-428b-a4eb-2245cc1e8214_21bcea96.jpg\" title=\"Paratroopers pose for a photo to signal mission success. Photo: UK MOD via AFP\"\/>Paratroopers pose for a photo to signal mission success. Photo: UK MOD via AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, is Britain\u2019s most remote inhabited overseas territory. Accessible only by boat and with no airstrip, it has a population of just 221. It is the world\u2019s most remote inhabited island, located more than 2,400km \u2013 a six-day boat voyage \u2013 from St Helena, its nearest inhabited neighbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British paratroopers landed on a \u201cgolf course covered in rocks\u201d to supply medical personnel and oxygen to Britain\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15548,15552,15547,13,374,15551,13659,15450,15549,15550,15553,10871,3252,8028,12451,15546],"class_list":{"0":"post-33306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-16-air-assault-brigade","9":"tag-ascension-island","10":"tag-brigadier-ed-cartwright","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-british","13":"tag-british-ministry-of-defence","14":"tag-hantavirus","15":"tag-mv-hondius","16":"tag-raf-a400m","17":"tag-raf-brize-norton","18":"tag-raf-voyager","19":"tag-reuters","20":"tag-royal-air-force","21":"tag-sky-news","22":"tag-south-atlantic","23":"tag-tristan-da-cunha"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116554267512205287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}