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Watch: Soldier on parachuting to remote island to bring Hantavirus aid

A specialist team helped supply critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic.

Published May 11, 2026, 12:39 PM
Updated May 17, 2026, 1:58 PM653
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Watch: Soldier on parachuting to remote island to bring Hantavirus aid

Members of the British Army have parachuted onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British national with suspected hantavirus.

Two paratroopers jumped in tandem with an intensive care nurse and a specialist doctor. Medical supplies were also delivered.

The patient 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.

Captain George Lacey, who jumped with the the Pathfinders Platoon, said high winds made it the mission "a particularly tricky one".

He said the team would be on the island for a few days awaiting recovery, because "sadly, you can't parachute back off the island".

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