Letter to Editor COVID-19 outbreak and medical waste: Challenge in hand

Hassan Musa (University of Khartoum)
Taha H. Musa (Southeast University)
Idriss H. Musa (Darfur College)
Olayinka Oderinde (Southeast University)

International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS)
Vol 9, No 3: September 2020

The ongoing pandemic of  novel coronavirus disease, COVID19, which first reported in Wuhan, China, inDecember 2019, [1] and caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV2) has resulted to more than 6,881,352 confirmed cases in the world, and 399,895 global deaths, as reported in 8:36am CEST, 8 June 2020. [2] It has been reported that the primary spread of COVID-19 via human transmission is during close contact, most often through small droplets spread by coughing, sneezing, and talking. [3] Researchers and health experts have discovered that wearing of appropriate face masks can significantly reduce the transmission up to the 75%.