The British military, for the first time, deployed medical personnel to provide humanitarian support.

As per the Ministry of Defense, UK military paratroops have dropped onto Britain's most remote overseas territory, Tristan da Cunha, along with medics and medical supplies, after a case of suspected hantavirus was confirmed there.

A team of six paratroopers and two military clinicians from the 16 ‌Air Assault Brigade jumped from an RAF A400M transport aircraft that flew 6,788 km (4,218 miles) from the RAF Brize Norton airbase in Oxfordshire to Ascension Island and then........

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