Jamshedpur-born young research scientist Dr Rajiv R Srivastava’s finding on COVID-19 spread is now a part of international research.
His research has been published in UK-based journal Science of The Total Environment on the topic “disinfection technology and strategies for COVID-waste management”.
One of the main contributors to the entire workout, Dr. Rajiv R. Srivastava, shared some important findings with their team collaborators. Notably, his father himself is a veteran medical practitioner Dr U K Srivastava, resident of Jugsalai.
Talking about the published article on COVID-waste management, Dr. Rajiv said that till date there is no specific medicine available and except the Russian vaccine, the hunting for a vaccine candidate is on. Prevention is the only effective way known to us.
Sharing his findings, he said that a new category of bio-medical waste has emerged after the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). The isolation wards, institutional quarantine centers, and home quarantine are generating a large volume of biomedical waste (BMW) worldwide on a daily basis since the pandemic outbreak. The personal protective equipment, testing kits, surgical facemasks, and nitrile gloves are the major contributors to this new category of waste (COVID-waste).
The discharge of which is of great global concern to the public health and environmental sustainability if handled inappropriately. It may cause exponential spreading of this fatal disease as waste acts as a vector for SARS-CoV-2, which survives up to seven days on COVID-waste (like used facemasks). Proper disposal of COVID-waste is therefore immediately required to lower the threat of pandemic spread and for sustainable management of the environmental hazards.
On the telephonic conversation, the task leader Dr. Sadia Ilyas who is a Brain Pool scientist at the Jeonbuk National University (JBNU, South Korea) said about the timely importance of the research article as the number of people infected with novel coronavirus is drastically increasing day-by-day.
The research group of COLINS Lab under the Mineral Resources and Energy Engineering at Jeonbuk National University (South Korea) is focused on the sustainable technology development for the resource recovery of critical metals from urban mined secondary resources. In this context, the process integration of microbial activity belonging to biotechnology and solvo-chemical aspects belonging to hydrometallurgy is being explored and the outcomes are very interesting.