The Uttarakhand Government should deploy the companies that pick and process bio medical waste for collecting the garbage of the people infected with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) or quarantined by the doctors, said the state president of Akhil Bharatiya Safai Mazdoor Sangh (ABSMS) Vishal Birla. According to him, the sanitation workers who pick up garbage or clean the roads are untrained poor people who can be the carrier of the COVID-19 or might get infected by it during their work. “Recently, a sanitation worker in Maharashtra was found positive for COVID-19. Therefore, the Government should at least provide the workers Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kit so that the workers do not get infected or become carriers of the virus amid the threat of COVID-19 in our State,” said Birla. He informed that he has also written a letter regarding this to the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat among others.
