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Accumulation of biomedical waste due to COVID-19: Concerns and strategies for effective treatment to control the pandemic

2022-01-18

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>This research paper deals with the pollution impact of biomedical waste (BMW) generation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at both global and national levels. This discussion is important in the light of clear scientific evidence that apart from the airborne transmission of the disease, the virus also survives on different surfaces carrying with it the risk of infection. Moreover, an invest...

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Literature Corpus work: bf217195-ffa6-5ac2-ad8d-eb8803deffb3
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1136646/v1

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