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Hello and welcome to More or Less, the show that knows that whether or not you're

interested in the numbers, the numbers are interested in you.

This week, ants, economists and mommins all help us tackle the big questions of the week.

Daily recorded cases in the UK are at record levels, but what does that actually tell us?

Let's deploy their superpower of extreme laziness to show how to expand testing capacity.

We answer your questions about how much room there is for refugees.

How many people are dying with Covid, but not of Covid?

And with apologies to Tolkien, we meet the one equation to rule them all.

So first, the roll-leg average number of daily confirmed Covid-19 cases rose well over

5,000 this week, and on Thursday last week, the government reported 6,634 new confirmed cases.

The highest daily total ever recorded.

Said the Sky News website.

Highest figure ever in 24 hours.

Said the Sun.

UK coronavirus cases surge by highest figure ever.

Said the Mirror.

But these were not very helpful headlines, and they also had not very helpful graphs to go with them.

Sirus producer Simon Mabin is here to explain more. Hello, Simon.

Hello.

OK, so help us to be more helpful.

OK, let's start with those graphs.

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