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Of the seven locations, Madhya Pradesh had the most respondents at 31%, followed by
Assam at 27%, Delhi at 16%, Mumbai at 15%, Uttar Pradesh at 6%, Jharkhand at 4%,
and Chhattisgarh at 1%.
Sanitation workers and rag-pickers face risk from the handling of unmarked medical
waste emerging from homes where Covid-19 patients are quarantined, as IndiaSpend
reported on April 9. Sanitation workers – just like doctors, nurses and community
health workers – are exposed to the infection, but unlike the medical
professionals, they do not know how to take precautions, said experts cited in the
report.