WHO, it estimated that some 87,000 tonnes of personal protective equipment (PPE), or the equivalent of the weight of several hundred blue whales, is thought to have ended up as waste.
The report also mentioned that some 140 million test kits with a potential to generate 2,600 tonnes of mostly plastic trash and enough chemical waste to fill one-third of an Olympic swimming pool.
Moreover, around eight billion vaccine doses administered globally have produced an additional 144,000 tonnes of waste in the form of glass vials, syringes, needles, and safety boxes.
The World Health Organization said that the medical waste, a portion of which could be infectious since coronavirus can survive on surfaces, potentially exposes health workers to burns, needle-stick injuries, and disease-causing germs.