Ministers ‘still hiding’ full details of 2016 pandemic simulation
by Jamie Doward from on (#59G6Y)
Health secretary announces publication of Cygnus study but activists point to missing data
The government has been accused of withholding the full findings of a simulation exercise that warned ministers that the UK would not cope in the event of a pandemic.
Campaigners have questioned what the government is hiding by choosing not to release all the documents relating to Exercise Cygnus, a three-day wargaming simulation that examined what would happen if there were an influenza pandemic in the UK.
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