Bringing Up The Rear
As hospitals at the forefront of the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were on high alert for infection risks and the treatment of patients, another source of infection was also getting special attention: medical waste.
Like medical workers, waste handlers were also armed to the teeth with protective suits, goggles, face masks and gloves. Mostly volunteers from other parts of China, they worked around the clock and managed to dispose of medical waste amounting to five times the regular medical waste processing capacity of the city.
A hard start
Before the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province in central China,
