Army stands by to help the NHS deliver to flooded areas
The MoD will deploy troops by air if winter weather threatens to disrupt the vaccination process in some hard-to-reach parts of the country
9 January 2021 • 5:01pm
Gurkhas from the The First Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, part of 16 Air Assault Brigade based in Folkestone, working at the Upstream Covid Testing Site in Hopworth Motorway Service Station for hauliers heading to Europe
Credit: Anthony Upton
Specialist teams from the Armed Forces are on stand-by to fly coronavirus vaccines to remote rural areas of the country in helicopters if winter storms or floods delay the mass vaccination plan.