Covid-19: Concern about social care’s ability to cope with pandemics was raised two years ago

Mounting criticism of UK ministers’ failure to prevent the spread of covid-19 through care homes has been fanned by the leak of a government report from two years ago warning that the country was ill prepared for the next pandemic. Based on the findings of a government simulation of a flu pandemic, codenamed Exercise Cygnus, the 57 page Public Health England document, passed to the Guardian , concluded that the UK would be unable to cope with...