Fighting from the bottom, India’s sanitation workers are also frontline workers battling Covid-19 | India News,The Indian Express

Fighting from the bottom, India’s sanitation workers are also frontline workers battling Covid-19 | India News,The Indian Express

Fighting from the bottom, India’s sanitation workers are also frontline workers battling Covid-19

Written by Abhimanyu Chakravorty | New Delhi | Updated: May 18, 2020 at 12:11 pm

India’s 40 lakh waste pickers in the informal sector and garbage collectors employed by states are at a direct risk of getting infected with coronavirus from handling unmarked medical and contaminated waste.