Confidential Cabinet Office briefing signed off by Sir Patrick Vallance - leaked to the Guardian: Ministers were warned last year the UK must have a robust plan to deal with a pandemic virus & its potentially catastrophic social and economic consequences.
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The recommendations included the need to stockpile PPE, organise advanced purchase agreements for other essential kit, establish procedures for disease surveillance and contact tracing, and draw up plans to manage a surge in excess deaths.
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Marked “official, sensitive” the 2019 National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) was signed off by Sir Patrick Vallance, the govt's CSO, as well as a senior national security adviser to the prime minister whom the Guardian has been asked not to name.
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Drawing on previous security assessments and health risk registers, the 600 page document implicitly warned ministers they could not afford to be complacent. “A novel pandemic virus could be both highly transmissible and highly virulent,”
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“The really frustrating thing is that there were plans. But emergency planning has been focused on political drivers, like Brexit and flooding.
There was a plan, but who took control? Who was responsible? We have been caught out.”
Full report:
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There was a plan, but who took control? Who was responsible? We have been caught out.”
Full report:
scribd.com/document/45790…
The @guardian lay out the key points of the leaked 2019 Cabinet Office briefing on UK pandemic threat.
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