Mint report from 13 May, 120 containment zones in Bengaluru alone have generated 80 tonnes of biomedical waste since the outbreak of covid-19.
Mumbai, one of the worst affected cities in the country, is exhausting its capacity to handle the additional burden of such waste—it has “only enough headroom to handle 4-5 tonnes more than its total capacity of 75 tonnes," the article noted.If people living in isolation or home quarantine use and throw away medical waste indiscriminately, or along with their dry waste, sanitation workers become more exposed to chances of contracting covid-19 as well as other diseases that may be spread through such contact.