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Wales, coronavirus and the class divide
TESS DELANEY reflects on how the virus outbreak might affect a country heavily reliant on tourism and with a large population of older people
A closed amusement arcade in Barry Island, Wales

IT’S human nature to go into shock in an emergency, and it looks like the nation is in shock. 

Here in Wales the public have again been split into opposite camps. 

As the schools closed and the sun came out, and Boris Johnson kept his advice just woozy enough to be indecipherable, the crowds flocked to Wales. 

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