Morning News: Europe’s Vaccine Drive, Bangladesh & Mosquito-Born Disease

The bloc seems at last to have a firm hand on inoculation and recovery—but efforts to engineer even progress among member states are not quite panning out.

In recent years Bangladesh’s government has been cosy with a puritanical Islamist group; we ask why the relationship has grown complicated. And a genetic-engineering solution to the problem of mosquito-borne disease. 

Views: 2021 Monocle Design Awards (Video)

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