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UK Government focus on Brexit ‘prevented’ plans for dealing with next pandemic (www.thenational.scot)

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[–] mraniki 1 points 2 years ago

“Did the attention therefore paid to the risks of a no-deal exit – Operation Yellowhammer as it was known – drain the resources and capacity that should have been continuing the fight against the next pandemic, that should have been utilised in preparing the United Kingdom for civil emergency?

“Or did all that generic and operational planning in fact lead to people being better trained and well marshalled and, in fact, better prepared to deal with Covid and also to the existence of improved trade, medicine and supply links?

“My lady on the evidence so far, but it will be a matter for you, we very much fear that it was the former.”