COVID-19 health waste management in Taiwan

ABSTRACT

2020 has brought a severe impact on the world. The COVID-19 epidemic has infected more than 30 million people worldwide, and more than a million people have died. International economic activities have also suffered unprecedented harm. Thereforiniiie, relevant personnel’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic is achieved at all stages to prevent COVID-19 injury entirely. Medical institutions, centralized quarantine sites, home quarantine personnel, and all the people involved can adequately handle the waste generated by the COVID-19 epidemic. Therefore, this chapter has formulated management measures and operating principles which mainly constitute the following four sections includes (1) Introduction to health waste management;(2) Waste classification and cleaning methods in COVID-19 medical institutions;(3) Centralized quarantine station and home isolation waste cleaning method;(4) COVID-19 infection control and risk assessment measures in Taiwanese hospitals (5) Feasible application of the smart system in health waste management. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.