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Pandemic response test was delayed for two years - by ebola outbreak

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A vital exercise testing the response to a major pandemic was delayed by two years because of the ebola outbreak, we can reveal.

The cross-Whitehall operation, codenamed Cygnus, was due to take place in October 2014, examining plans at a range of organisations, including the Department of Health (DH), NHS and Public England.

But the ebola epidemic in West Africa derailed the three-day drill until autumn 2016. The importance of the 2014 exercise was outlined in a PHE document, Pandemic Influenza Response Plan 2014, published in August that year.

The plan, still available online, says: “In October 2014 Exercise Cygnus, a DH-led Tier 1 pandemic influenza exercise as part of the UK government national exercise programme, aims to assess the

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