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Letting Cheltenham go ahead seemed like a bad idea at the time let alone now; 250,000 pissed up people cramming into the paddock for each race was never going to be helpful. Distinctly remember the ITV rhetoric being along the lines of the meet being a final hurrah before those bloody politicians end our fun - strange
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I live near Cheltenham and looking at that map the two areas with the highest number of cases also appear to be those with the highest population density. The racing shouldn't have gone ahead though and one of my work colleagues and his wife who live around there have both had Covid-19 (although that might be coincindental).
There seems to be a concentration of hospitalised C-19 cases around the Cheltenham races as of April 3rd.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/leaked-map-shows-postcode-next-4071259
The Cotswolds (where most visitors stay) is badly effected relative to the average for Gloucestershire.