Assessment of bio-medical waste before and during the emergency of novel Coronavirus disease pandemic in India: A gap analysis

The finding of the study demonstrated that most of the States/Union Territories (UTs) of India are lacking in terms of COVID-19 waste management. [...] ries are involved in generation of COVID-19 waste (CPCB, The outbreak of COVID-19 first emerged in the end of 2020a). [...] In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in estimated that after the spread of COVID-19 disease, the amount India, the CPCB functionary under the Ministry of Environment, of BMW has increased over 15 times more compared to the waste Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) published the guidelines generated from the general patients (Anwer and Faizan, 2020). [...] comprehensive assessment of BMW generation, collection, and India is on the precipice of a COVID-19 induced waste crisis management across the 28 States and eight Union Territories (Ramteke and Sahu, 2020), as per the consolidated status report (UTs) of India before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] Figure 3 indicated that in the early Results and discussion months of the COVID-19 period (June–October 2020), the gen- Generation, distribution, and eration of waste rose from 3025 mt/month in June to 5597 mt/ Management of BMW in India before and month in October 2020.