DID you know this is not the first time lives have been saved by Aberystwyth going into lockdown?

A hundred years ago, during the Spanish flu pandemic, Aber was one of the few towns that did go into lockdown - and it was credited with saving many lives, and suggested as a blueprint for how to handle pandemics in the future.

The outbreak of Spanish flu at the end of the First World War is being examined in an S4C show PANDEMIG: 1918/2020.

In the programme, being broadcast on Tuesday, 14 July, Dr Llinos Roberts (pictured) digs into the extraordinary story of how Aberystwyth did shut down in order to try to halt the spread of the pandemic and how this saved many lives.

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