In late December 2019, the world woke to a truth of a pandemic of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), inspired by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has a place with a gathering of beta-coronavirus. As of July 21 India is still fighting to survive against the SARS-CoV-2 as called coronavirus disease. The contaminations, first constrained in the Kerala state, have inevitably spread to every single other area. The possibility to cause dangerous respiratory disappointment and quick transmission puts COVID-19 in the rundown of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). There is a flow overall break out of the novel coronavirus Covid-19, which started from Wuhan in China and has now spread to more than 212 countries including 14,753,034 cases, as of 12:20 AM on July 21, 2020. Governments are feeling the squeeze to prevent the outbreak from spiralling into a worldwide wellbeing crisis. At this stage, readiness, straightforwardness, and sharing of data are vital to hazard evaluations and starting explosion control exercises. Since the episode of serious intense respiratory disorder (SARS) 18 years back, an enormous number of SARS-related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs) have been found in their regular repository have, bats. During this epidemic condition, expulsion of biomedical waste created from crisis facilities treating COVID-19 patients in like manner demands unprecedented thought as they can be potential bearers of the disease SARS-CoV-2. This article discusses the potential consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on biomedical waste administrations, concentrating on basic focuses where option working methodology or extra moderation measures might be fitting.

In India, several (>50) vegetables are widely used as food due to their high nutrition values. However, vegetables in industrial area are getting contaminated with heavy metals by disturbing biological and biochemical processes in the human body. In present study, the risk of human health by heavy metals (Fe, As, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd and Hg) through the intake of common vegetables i.e. Solanum lycopersicum, Solanum melongena, Amaranthus tricolor L., Chenopodium album L., Spinacia oleracea and Coriandrum sativum obtained from the largest coal burning basin, Korba, India is described. The concentration of Fe, As, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and Hg in the soils (n = 6) was ranged from 18,

Two major issues, i.e. large crop productions and huge anthropogenic activities (e.g. fuel burning and mineral roasting) disturb the micronutrient balance in the soil of India. In this work, the available and total status of eight micronutrients i.e. Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, Co, Ni, Mo, and S of the soils in the most urbanized area: Raipur area, Chhattisgarh, India (extending over ≈ 2 × 10 4 km 2) is described. The available status of micronutrients i.e. Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, Co, Ni, Mo and 2 4 SO − in the soils (n = 100) was ranged from 30-8253, 205-2800, 2.0-8.1, 0.7-5.0, 2.2-31.2, 0.1-13.4, 0.1-8.9 and 41-747 mg/kg with mean value of (at 95% probability) 642 ± 186, 1178 ± 119, 4.3 ± 0.3, 2.3 ± 0.2, 12.8 ± 1.3, 3.9 ± 0.6, 1.5 ± 0.3 and 281 ± 25 mg/kg, respectively. The concentration variations, deficiencies and toxicities of the micronutrients in the soil are discussed.

Particulate air pollution during the winter season in the urban regions of India is severe due to substantial fuel and mineral combustion in adverse climatic conditions. In this work, chemical characteristics and sources of coarse particulate matter (PM 10 ) and particulates associated chemicals during winter period of years 2006-2013 in the polluted city of Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, are reported. The ambient air coarse particulate (PM 10 ) concentration during the winter period of 2006-2007 ranged from 221 to 760 μg m −3 . The major fraction of the PM 10 was composed of organic carbon, elemental carbon, iron, calcium, and sulfate. Their concentrations were remarkably reduced in the rainy season due to high wind speeds (around 10 kmh −1 ) and removal with rain. The concentration variations and sources of PM and associated chemical species (i.e., carbons, ions, and metals) in the ambient air are discussed.

The most of iron, cement, paper and plastic related industries are running in Raipur area of the country. They use a large amount of water by discharging effluents into the streams and rivers by polluting nearby water resources. In this work, the physico-chemical characteristics of discharged waste water of 34 industries (i.e. iron, steel, power, paper and polymer) are described. The waste water is found to be acidic in nature with high contents of F − and other ions.