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Inside UK's deadliest county where Covid death rate is twice national average

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The South Wales valleys are no stranger to hardship. The lifeblood of these isolated communities - their mining and manufacturing industries - has been squeezed dry by economic decline.

Dark spoil tips glower over the towns, a reminder of faded glories long since erased by a decade of Tory austerity. Now Rhondda Cynon Taf - the Welsh valleys county which is home to almost a quarter of a million people - finds itself at the centre of the global pandemic storm.

Its Coronavirus death rate of 283 per 100,000 people is twice the national average - making it the most Covid-deadly place in Britain.

Labour MP for Rhondda Chris Bryant believes the county’s heartbreaking poverty and years of neglect are a root cause of the soaring death toll. Got

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