Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
Confusing claims on lab capacity, the UK鈥檚 record on asylum, and the volume of eyelashes.
Amid reports of problems with coronavirus testing across the UK, we interrogate the numbers on laboratory capacity. Does the government鈥檚 Operation Moonshot plan for mass testing make statistical sense? Has the UK been taking more refugees from outside the European Union than any EU country? We explore the connection between socio-economic status and Covid deaths. And we do the maths on a mascara brand鈥檚 bold claim about emboldening your eyelashes.
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- Wed 16 Sep 2020 09:0091福利社 Radio 4
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