Past pandemics and epidemics have shaped the new coronavirus plan – and top of the list is a catastrophic pandemic which killed at least 50m people
The government’s coronavirus “action plan” contains a table comparing the impact of the major respiratory virus outbreaks of the last 100 years.
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