46% increase in Covid biomedical waste in April-May, says report

Recently released report titled ‘State of India’s Environment in Figures 2021’ shows a significant increase in the generation of Covid-19-related biomedical waste (BMW) during the second wave of the pandemic.

The report says: “India produced 139 tonnes per day of Covid-19-related biomedical waste in April 2021, as the country braced against the second wave. In May 2021, the figure escalated to 203 tonnes per day, an increase of 46 per cent.”