After the UK's coronavirus death toll exceeded the grim 40,000 milestone yesterday it is easy to lose hope that we will ever be able to get hold of the pandemic.
With hundreds still dying every week we are now moving slowly towards lifting the lockdown that was imposed on the country back in March.
But as Britain gets moving again it seem one area of the country almost entirely escaped the disease. With just 42 confirmed cases to date, and seven deaths, it seems that in the coastal council area of Ceredigion in Wales, the virus never really took hold.
The initial flurry of cases in this rural part of Wales was comparable at the start of the outbreak to the local authorities of Wales that ended up being worst hit by the virus.
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