It’s day one of lockdown and already the local Kirana shop running out of essentials. A few vegetable vendors were plying today evening in Devachi Uruli Village, Pune Rural. Fortunately we were able to stock up for #21daylockdown #fieldnotes

All the critics of billions of dollars of Singaporean spends on A-STAR biomedical research over the past two decades, need to realise capacity is not built overnight rather a generational effort, as we can see during COVID.