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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Red squares mean the mean monthly antibiotic use in the pre-COVID period (year 2015–2019). The orange circles represent the minimum, while the green circle represents the pre-COVID period’s maximum. The colored columns represent the use of antibacterials in the different COVID-19 periods.