Formby's "affluence" has made its covid variant spike easier to control, according to local health bosses.
Coronavirus rates in the town continue to fall, after a surge in cases prompted mass testing in parts of the borough.
In the seven days to May 18, the infection rate for Sefton fell from 49 per 100,000 to 22 per 100,000 people.
Jenny Harries, the head of NHS Test and Trace and Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency, last week praised Sefton for how it is dealing with the Covid variant.
The data was going in the right direction, she said.
The recent outbreak centred around the Formby area, one of the wealthiest parts of the North West.
Those living in the town have an above average life expectancy, and just 6% of people living there rely on benefits, compared with 11% nationally.
The link between deprivation and Covid infection rates is well-established, and the Guardian reports Sefton has "undoubtedly had a much easier pandemic" than Bolton, where rates continue to surge.
According to government data, Bolton's cases jumped by almost 73% in the week up to May 18, giving the borough an infection rate of 434 per 100,000.
The stark differences between the two areas were illustrated, the Guardian said, by the Formby branch of Waitrose being chosen for a pop-up testing site, while in Bolton a vaccine bus was parked outside a school where "almost half of pupils qualify for free school meals and 80% of pupils do not have English as a first language".
A spokesman for Sefton Council told the ECHO : “Our director of public health, Margaret Jones, has said that Formby’s relative affluence has made it easier to control the new variant and that the community is different than others that have been affected in other parts of the country.
“She said that the level of uptake for first and second doses of the vaccine in the Formby area was very high and that most of the recent cases were in younger people who had not yet been invited for vaccination.
“She also pointed out that most of those who had to isolate were largely able to work from home.”
Everyone aged 16 and over and living, working and studying in the Formby area, or those who have visited facilities in the area during the past two weeks, is urged to get tested for the virus.
There are pop-up sites at Freshfields railway station, Sefton Professional Development Centre, and Formby Waitrose, as well as drive-through testing sites at Deansgate Lane Park in Formby and at Ainsdale Hope on Sandringham Road.
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