April 25, 2020

Where should the waste from quarantine centres and COVID isolation wards go?

*Representational image: How to safely dispose of potentially contaminated biomedical waste. Pic: DFID – UK Department for International Development (via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0)*

Ananya Tewari, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Environmental Health, Public Health Foundation of India and Centre for Chronic Disease Control writes about biomedical waste management during COVID-19.

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