Eleven pandemic exercises were carried out before Covid, government admits
But public health chiefs refuse to release outcome on national security grounds
Source: msn.com
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Secret planning exercise in 2016 modelled impact of Mers outbreak in UK
Hancock faces cross-examination by MPs on Thursday who have already heard claims from the prime minister’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings that assurances he received that pandemic planning was up to date were “completely hollow”. As recently as March, PHE refused to name the exercises or say what they were about, but it released information when challenged in May by Qureshi. Other exercises include three on Ebola, four on pandemic influenza, two on Lassa, an acute viral haemorrhagic illness, three on bird flu and one that dealt with a radiation incident, nicknamed Exercise Cerber...
Source: theguardian.com
Covid-19 UK: Britain DID simulate a coronavirus pandemic but health chiefs WON'T say how it went
Health Secretary Matt Hancock - who faced a grilling from MPs today about No10's failures throughout the Covid pandemic - has only ever confessed to an operation against flu.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Government ran secret coronavirus outbreak exercise five years ago
The UK government ran a secret exercise mimicking the outbreak of a Covid-like virus outbreak five years ago.
Source: cityam.com