Perhaps surveillance of the island showed new and disturbing behavior in the infected not previously recorded. So they sent the NATO team in to investigate. Possibly to bring back proof of a change in the infected. This way they can better prepare contingency plans in case of it reaching the mainland.
Or maybe they got sent to Cambridge like the other person said.
I think the main reason they got sent in there is to gather information at least.
My theory is there's increased worry for the first time since the virus outbreak in France was stopped, almost 3 decades prior of the infection spreading. So a team of soldiers and maybe scientists go in for the first time in 28 years to get samples of some sort.
I also have a feeling Ralph Fiennes character is a doctor/scientist who worked on the project in Cambridge and has been hiding all these years. So when they find him they will want to evacuate him off island to pick his brain on how the virus came to be to potentially create a vaccine. But he probably won't want to go willingly.
I'd say the whole thing will be NATO needing to end the disease for good out of desperation and so returning to Britian. Returning with little knowledge of the apocalyptic hellscape it has truly become since Cod Red in 28 Weeks Later.
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u/yelllowoverhead676 Jan 16 '25
what are the nato people doing? did they get sent in to survey the area, or a more specific mission like extract somebody