Getty ImagesMore than 200 offshore energy workers displaying mild symptoms of coronavirus have been “repatriated” since the outbreak began, it has emerged.
The offshore oil and gas industry employs about 25,000 people across the UK.
Specially adapted helicopters have been used to bring workers with suspected symptoms back to land.
Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) said when the outbreak began in March “it caught everyone a bit by surprise”.
Trevor Stapleton, OGUK’s health and safety director, said: “If you go back to the early days in March, I would accept any…
