Context
Inquires about the number of British armed forces personnel stationed abroad who have contracted covid-19 and their medical treatment.
Question
What recent estimate has been made of the number of British armed forces personnel stationed abroad who have contracted covid-19? Will he further outline whether any personnel have had to return home due to covid-19 issues? If there is a facility to get our troops home as needed, are they hospitalised according to their regimental location, or are they hospitalised all together?
Answer from James Heappey (Minister for the Armed Forces)
Twenty-five service personnel have tested positive for covid while serving overseas. I am not aware of any individual circumstances in which someone has been recovered back to the UK as a consequence of having tested positive. The symptoms would determine whether they required hospitalisation. Medical facilities in all theatres of operation and on all ships are appropriate to deal with covid as it would normally stand. If an instance had been more serious, we would of course have looked at the need to recover the individual.
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