Is the waste from houses of Covid-positive residents being collected as per protocol in Chennai?
Representational picture | Photo Credit: PTI  Chennai: The city residents have said that there is no uniformity in the way garbage is collected from the homes of people who are under home isolation. While some residents have said that their garbage is collected regularly in yellow bags, others have had to wait for five to six days before someone comes in to collect their garbage. A resident of Royapuram said that while conservancy staffers had come to collect garbage from their homes when there was a Covid positive patient in the house, they had collected the garbage and had disposed it off at a roadside dustbin right in front of the resident's house. The resident further said that the staffers were not wearing any gloves and that a complaint in this regard was also later filed as there was a risk that the roadside bins were also exposed to the virus. Meanwhile, the corporation officials told the media that the protocol is that the officials will collect garbage from the houses of Covid positive patients in yellow bags. Some residents have even reiterated that the protocol was followed and that the garbage was properly collected from their houses. The officials however said that the garbage was being collected everyday and the officials get a list of corporation's health department and collect waste from the doorsteps of patients in home isolation. It was further said that the only reason that the officials might have missed the collection of garbage is because the residents might have failed to tell the city corporation about their Covid positive diagnosis.