You feel all is not lost when a sunshine story rises up against a gloomy horizon. This one is about the undying effort of our frontline novel Coronavirus warriors — the doctors, paramedics and support staff. A chapter of this stunning story, comes from Mumbai's BMC-run Nair Hospital, where the 200th corona negative baby was born to a positive mother last week. All the Nair babies are doing well and so are their happy mothers, thanks to the united army of medics. The landmark baby, a girl, was named Amazon by a medical team that coordinates Nair Hospital's (also a medical college) war against COVID-19.

I knew the interesting story from Manisha Patankar Mhaiskar, principal secretary in charge of BMC COVID hospitals. The Nair team shares everything on their WhatsApp group. The happiness they shared last week can be felt even while some sad stories are floating around us. When Manisha received a message in the group about the birth, she expressed her happiness in one word 'Amazon'. The IAS officer wrote on her Facebook wall how inadvertent the expression was and yet it fitted the celebration. "So when the 200th COVID negative baby was born to a positive mumma, Sarika Patil and Surbhi Rathi (senior Nair doctors) posted it enthusiastically (in the group). Blame it part on auto correct and part on multi-tasking, I replied 'Amazon' instead of 'Amazing'. But since the 200th baby was a girl child, my autocorrect error was fortuitous, and we named the negative baby, Amazon, after the legendary race of female warriors. May she and all baby girls be tall, strong and powerful." We wish the babies born fighting a grave challenge the valour of the Amazons, who according to Greek mythology lived in Asia Minor.