Besides over-prescription and indiscriminate self-medication, usage of antimicrobials in agriculture, as well as discharge of untreated wastewater from medical facilities and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are also contributing to AMR in the country by introducing superbugs (antimicrobial-resistant microbes) to the food chain, experts note.

“The issue of [AMR] precedes the outbreak of Covid19, and it has the potential to snowball into a public health emergency,” Dr. K. Madan Gopal, a senior health consultant at NITI Aayog, wrote in June. “We need to be cognizant of the fact that a pandemic happens once every 100 years. But, if we do not learn our lessons, the next pandemic could be that of AMR, and it will be much sooner,” he warned.

There were curtains separating them so the older man never saw the younger man. "It wasn't until I left that they gave me the news. That's what took me back," he said. "It was a comment, 'Oh by the way, do you know the guy over there - he's gone now, but do you know he had Covid'. I was like, oh man."

For many of us, our very first experience of learning about the celestial bodies begins when we saw our first full moon in the sky. It is truly a magnificent view even to the naked eye. If the night is clear, you can see amazing detail of the lunar surface just star gazing on in your back yard.