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The exercise in 2018 was concerned about the protection of equipment and contract tracing
A exercise Simulation of a Corona-Virus outbreak in Scotland, jointly with the UK government's Advisory group, showed a "significant gap" in readiness, learned BBC.
A report in the Exercise "Iris" revealed frontline staff "discomfort" about the personal protection equipment and the "need for substantial progress".
The exercise simulated an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory syndrome.
The Scottish Government says that its findings were shared with the participants.
Middle-East-respiratory-syndrome (MERS-CoV) is a coronavirus, such as SARS-Cov-2, but has different properties.
As The Novel coronavirus, MERS-CoV causes a respiratory disease and the main symptoms are fever and cough. However, the transfer rates are probably much lower and death rates are much higher.
Bbc News has learned, an exercise was performed to simulate an outbreak of the disease in 2018, and requested the results under the Freedom of Information Act in April. The Scottish Government has now.
The results were shared with the technical Committee, the British government advises on pandemics, the New and emerging Respiratory virus Advisory Group (Nervtag) in June 2019.
"Exercise Iris" was a tabletop exercise took place in a hotel in Stirling on 12 March 2018, and the participating health boards, Health Protection Scotland, the Scottish Ambulance Service and Nhs 24 , The Telephone advice service.
Exercise discussions revealed concerns about the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), and stressed "The Need for substantial progress on the PSA use in Scotland," The Report said.
"questions about PSA, which is not unique to a MERS-CoV outbreak," it said.
The Report 's conclusions also note a "discomfort" among the frontline staff about the lack of clarity on PPE availability, training and testing.
"This is a clear gap in Scotland in preparation for MERS and other outbreaks, and addressed VOC needs to be, as soon as possible. "
'Lost opportunity'The Report also warns that the requirements of contact tracing.
A scenario in the training functions "escalation of resource requirements for contact tracing and follow-up". As a result, health boards, and the impact of the extensive contact tracing were asked to consider.
"It feels like a missed opportunity," said Professor Devi Sridhar, Department of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the Scottish Government 's COVID-19 Advisory Group.
"On the positive side, it is good that these exercises were carried out, because it meant that you think about the flu, they thought about the corona virus.
"But on the negative side, it is surprising, it seems that the SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for emergencies) to discuss the members were not aware of, or at the very least, this exercise in their thinking in January or February, which is of crucial importance in the production steps to actually prepare for a possible outbreak".
"It is the purpose of these exercises is to learn from them," she added.
A report on the results of an exercise on influenza pandemic is simulated as an "Exercise Cygnus", which was published in England in October 2016, also.
The Report in the MERS-coronavirus exercise, says the Public Health England held a final practice in the year 2016 ", which identifies a series of measures for the improvement".
In two sessions in June and December 2018, Nervtag asked for The Report in the exercise of the distribution within The Group .
minutes of a meeting of June 2019, when The Report was released, saying: "most of the recommendations have now been implemented or are in the implementation phase", the Health Protection Scotland's resilience group.
The Scottish Government said The Report was shared with all participants.
"The output from this exercise was carried out as in accordance with further work on the protection of the health screening by the Scottish Health Protection Network," it said.
The Department of health and Social Care, said: "As The Public would expect, we regularly test our readiness for emergencies, which allows us to respond quickly to this unprecedented Crisis . "
coronavirus pandemic, public health, mers virus
Source of news: bbc.com
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