EXCLUSIVE: In 2005 a blueprint was drawn up to fight a coronavirus – then it was ‘lost’ independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
After Sars swept across the globe, the UK drew up a plan for fighting an airborne virus arriving in Britain from China. The 2005 document was filed away in Whitehall, and apparently never used. independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
Now uncovered, its recommendations – from limiting travel to stopping ‘super-spreader’ events – are strikingly similar to the measures belatedly brought in to fight Covid-19. independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
Former government advisers tell @samueljlovett that this guide to fighting an epidemic could have saved tens of thousands of lives independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
In full: The 2005 coronavirus plan that predicted outbreak response from ‘super-spreader’ events to travel
independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
It could have saved lives. So how did the coronavirus response plan go missing?
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