The major test - codenamed Cygnus - has emerged amid the coronavirus crisis after three years ago it found that hospitals would run out of intensive care beds and mortuaries would be overwhelmed should a pandemic strike
The government was reportedly warned three years ago that the NHS would be quickly overwhelmed in the event of a severe disease outbreak.
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