| The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak posed greater challenges to all the sectors across the globe. The entire world is still battling with the unprecedented pandemic crisis since December 2019. Containing the spread of COVID-19 has been a multifaceted challenging task, as the disease progress with fresh waves and new variants. The pandemic has also paved new research thrust areas apart from medical frontiers. The most relevant research would be impact of COVID 19 on the environment, and climate. The only positive side of these COVID-19 lockdown measures was noticed on the environmental perspective, particularly in regard to short-term environmental improvement in air quality by drastic reduction in the air pollution, green house gas emissions, nitrogen oxide emissions, and carbon dioxide emissions all across the globe and contrarily, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a huge surge in bio-medical waste generation. Hence a retrospective research study was conducted to find the correlation of bio-medical waste generated and patients who were treated in a tertiary care COVID-19 hospital in Maharashtra from 2019 to 2021.
Keywords: COVID-19, Bio Medical Waste, Environment, Pollution, Personal Protective Equipments, Waste management
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