Video: Covid-19 self-test kits posing health hazard in Bengaluru
The Hindu
They are being disposed as dry waste instead of bio-medical waste
The growing popularity of self-test COVID-19 kits is proving to be a problem for civic workers collecting dry waste from households as well as those who segregate them at Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCCs) in Bengaluru.
There has been a rise in discarded masks during the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, home test kits are also found mixed with household waste instead of being set aside as bio-medical waste.
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