Updates on biomedical waste management during COVID-19: The Indian scenario

• Main Authors: Sharad Chand (Author), C.S. Shastry (Author), Shivakumar Hiremath (Author), Juno J. Joel (Author), C.H. Krishnabhat (Author), Uday Venkat Mateti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Biomedical waste poses various health and environmental hazards. Hence, it should be handled with the utmost care and disposed off safely. Several lacunas exist in the management of biomedical waste in India, and the pandemic posed by the coronavirus has made it even more challenging. The sudden out...