Anyone still not heard of anyone getting covid?

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I live in an area of high infections but I haven't heard of anyone getting the virus. I have spoken to people with many more contacts than me a woman who works in a local shop, a sandwich shop worker and a bar worker. Nobody knows anyone who has had covid. I asked family on the phone who live outside my local area each with different points of contact through work or other portals and nothing!

I am not a conspiricy theorist or anti regulation but this just seems a bit odd to me. I can only assume that the virus is spreading in very limited locations as opposed to over a whole region at least in my part of the UK.

In the first wave I only personally knew one person who had tested positive, she was a front line nurse.
This time there are cases in both my dc schools, a teacher friend is positive, our local post office is closed due to a positive case, a friend's adult daughter is positive. Cases are on the rise and it all feels very close to home.

In March/April I knew of three people who had something similar but relatively mild so they weren't tested so maybe did and maybe didn't. Then nothing.

Then in the last week, I know personally two people who have tested positive who are not known to each other. And I've had a 'you've been near someone who tested positive but limited time/distance so don't need to isolate' message from the covid app which couldn't have related to either of these two people. I'm in a medium risk area (current lowest level of risk).