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image captionBridgend has gone from very high to very low case numbers since Christmas
Children as young as 11 are being included in a free Covid testing programme across a whole county.
Bridgend council is offering anyone who does not have symptoms of the virus tests during April.
Bridgend has the fourth lowest case rate in Wales, at 10.2 per 100,000 people, and one of UK s lowest overall.
Council leader Huw David said the community testing could pick up asymptomatic cases and help keep the rate low.
Bridgend has seen a remarkable turnaround in its coronavirus fortunes.
At one point over the Christmas period, it had one of the highest case rates in the UK at 1,118.7 per 100,000 people, second only in Wales to the even more badly affected Merthyr Tydfil and double the Wales-wide average.
Second phase of community testing begins in Bridgend county
Bridgend county borough currently has the lowest coronavirus case rate in Wales
11:29, 8 APR 2021
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Community testing has begun at Ogmore Valley Life Centre as well as sites in Bridgend and Porthcawl.
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