Outer Hebrides, are concerned the arrival of planeloads of US personnel for a missile firing exercise on the Atlantic coast could leave them open to fresh infection.Dozens of military technicians from the US Defence Department and UK defence contractors are due to arrive at the MOD Hebrides rocket range on Benbecula over the next few months to take part in a huge naval war game.
Exercise “Formidable Shield” is a regular defence exercise engaging the Royal Navy and the US 6th Fleet in live missile firing at the Atlantic range west of the Hebrides.But locals fear that the movement of over one hundred personnel to the former RAF base in Benbecula and surrounding hotel accommodation could bring covid-19 back to the Uists.One islander told the.