Big Smile, No Teeth: Covid-19 gives us a glimpse of a world we could have

This combination of pictures shows a street leading to the Delhi’s Presidential Palace on March 24 (left) and the same street photographed on April 2. Amid the world's biggest Covid-19-caused lockdown in India, Delhi's 20 million citizens are revelling in azure skies and clean air – a welcome respite in a city that is normally considered one of the world's most polluted. — AFP

Have you seen the video of a jellyfish swimming through the canals in Venice? It’s clearly visible cruising through a body of water where its sighting would have been unthinkable a month ago? It’s a sign that nature is reclaiming the previously human-tainted canal system of Venice.

Images like this are popping up everywhere. Recordings of crystal clear blue skies in places like Dehli and Los Angeles where normally the sky is mired in the grey haze of pollutants. All these are signs that the global lockdown taking people out of the environment is actually really good for the environment.