Secret government report produced after the 2016 'Exercise Cygnus' that highlighted the UK was not prepared for a pandemic, and forewarned of the Covid-19 crisis in care homes, is being published by the Guardian.
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The report contained 26 key recommendations. Martin Green, the chief executive of Care England, said "If they had put in place a response to every one, we would have been in a much better place at the start of this pandemic.”
A government spokesperson said: “The UK is one of the most prepared countries in the world and, as the public would expect, we regularly test our plans. What we learned from previous exercises helped us to rapidly respond to this unprecedented global crisis..."
