My thanks to the Sultanate of Oman for hosting this, the 3rd High-level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance, or AMR. Welcome to the ministers in attendance, our colleagues in the One Health Quadripartite and other delegates. My apologies that owing to previous commitments, I am unable to join you in-person.
New global estimates show that in 2019, nearly 5 million human deaths worldwide were associated with bacterial AMR of which 1.3 million human deaths were directly attributable to bacterial AMR.