A former Government adviser has said the Covid-19 outbreak should be a wake-up call to the UK, claiming previous tests proved it was "poorly prepared" for a pandemic.
Professor Sir Ian Boyd, the former chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012 to 2019, said resilience should be built into the UK on a wide scale to cope with an outbreak of this magnitude - from national Government to individual household level.
Sir Ian, who now works at the University of St Andrews, said mitigation measures must be put in place to counter the issues being seen in the current pandemic.