One of the issues throughout the whole crisis was how centralised covid services have been and how smaller provicial towns didn't have the same level of facilities.
So far we have been lucky because the outbreak centred on London, but the risk is if we have a very large outbreak provicial services will be overrun very quickly and this will be amplified by economic inequality, a more vulnerable (older) population, a poor level of general health and a lower intensive care beds per head of population - meaning an outbreak going undetected for much longer as its harder to get tested, a population that is less able to get prompt access to medical attention if they need it and services which are more at risk of being stretched.
See this article and map on which places are vulnerable which was written in April:
www.centreforcities.org/blog/where-are-the-most-vulnerable-cities-in-the-uk-coronavirus/
Compare it with what the current hotspot map looks like.
My worry is that we are now seeing a pattern which matches where weakest covid provision and where there is poorer underlying health coming together, because the initial government strategy was most blind in the very places it needed to be most vigilant.
Warrington ISN'T the most vulnerable population in the area. You need to be looking at places like Hull and Knowsley, but Warrington does fall through the cracks in other ways.
It is not reassuring.