With bare hands and battered feet, Delhi’s waste pickers are sifting through tonnes of hazardous Covid biomedical waste.
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01:00The difference is that most of the garbage comes from the hospital, that's the only difference.
01:07Earlier the garbage used to come from the neighborhood, but now it's less.
01:12Most of the garbage comes from the hospital.
01:14I'm afraid of death. I'm afraid that I might die.
01:18I'm afraid that I might get sick.
01:20But this fear won't fill my stomach.
01:23That's why I have to do this work.
01:25I'm afraid of getting sick.
01:28When I go to work, I'm afraid.
01:30I leave my child at home and go to work.
01:33There's a lot of garbage there.
01:35When I come back, I'm afraid to go back home.
01:40I'm afraid to go back home.
01:42I'm afraid of the corona virus.
02:58We have been working for 10 years.
03:20The corona virus excites us and kills us.
03:25We go to work and sell the garbage.
03:27We earn around Rs. 600-700.