Brits who got off the rat-virus ship on a remote Atlantic island before the outbreak was known will be flown 5,000 miles to the UK to isolate here instead.
Ten Brits linked to the Hantavirus-hit MV Hondius, as well as local medics on St Helena and Ascension Island who have been in contact with them, will be brought back imminently, health authorities say.
It comes as 20 British nationals from the ship who have been isolating at former Covid quarantine hospital Arrowe Park on the Wirral prepare to leave the facility.
Meanwhile, experts are warning the virus could already have taken hold beyond
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