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New Delhi, July 23
In its latest guidelines on disposal of Covid-19 waste, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed that masks and gloves used by everyone, whether infected or not, should be cut and kept in paper bags for minimum 72 hours before disposing them of.
The CPCB has also directed commercial establishments like malls and offices to follow the same procedure with discarded protective personal equipment (PPE). It, however, said the leftover food and empty water bottles handled by infected patients should not be collected along with bio-medical waste but with other general solid waste. It has also directed that isolation wards use double-layered bags for collection of Covid-19 waste and disinfect all bins/containers every day.
The board's directions came even as the country witnessed the highest single day surge of 45,720 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours, taking the cumulative national disease burden to 12,38,635. The death toll from the infection touched 29,861 with a record 1,129 fatalities in a day. It was also a day of record recoveries with 29,557 getting cured or discharged. The national recovery rate is stable at 63.18 per cent with 7,82,606 recoveries and 4,26,167 patients currently on management. "The recoveries now exceed infections by 3,56,439 cases," the Health Ministry said. — TNS
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