What has worked in our favour is the fact that the lockdown gave us time to understand the disease better and build up our medical armamentarium against it. When the 75-year-old gentleman exclaimed “The lockdown is a total failure”, I felt his outburst was justifiable. Despite being in complete isolation in his house for three…

A study in China estimates that there are now more than 30 strains of SARS-CoV-2 spread across the globe. This pandemic is no surprise. It was coming, and so will others. Walking towards the school gate, as I adjusted the N-99 face mask on my four-year-old, I felt deeply disturbed. The AQI numbers in our…