The COVID-19 pandemic that has the world in its grip currently has thrown up new challenges at experts almost on a daily basis. Many complications have come along with it and health professionals are already at their wits’ end trying to deal with these. But in all this one complication has been side-stepped by most. The subject of antibiotic resistance in COVID-19 related secondary infections has not received as much attention as it should have. And this is worrying indeed because antimicrobial resistance can increase fatality rate from this viral contagion significantly. What is antimicrobial resistance? According to the World