Reduce the risk of spreading flu:
🤧 Catch it - use tissues when you sneeze or cough
🗑️ Bin it - put tissues in the bin as soon as possible
👋 Kill it - wash hands with soap and warm water[_link] pic.twitter.com/ymWRLBOX4q

— Public Health England (@PHE_uk) January 30, 2020

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Coronavirus: awaiting the cavalry

But, in fact, it now transpires that the UK government has gone for neither of those options. The clue to this came with last weekend's article which recorded the failure of a pandemic test run carried out three years ago, under the title "Exercise Cygnus".

What emerged from the article is that, even though the system failed, no amendments were made to the strategic roadmap for a future pandemic, with the last update having been carried out in 2014. The actual working model for the current Covid-19 epidemic, therefore, is the Pandemic Influenza Response Plan augmented by the Pandemic Influenza Strategic Framework, both published by Public Health England in August 2014.

And in those pages is the previously "opaque" reason why Public Health England so precipitously abandoned the "test and trace" programme, an action which has attracted so much criticism.

Results Exercise Cygnus Kept Secret