Zheng Liu¹ & Yawei Zhang^2,3 & Xishan Wang¹ & Daming Zhang^2,4 & Dechang Diao⁵ & K. Chandramohan⁶ & Christopher M. Booth⁷

• ¹ Department of Colorectal Surgery, National Cancer Center, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
• ² Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
• ³ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
• ⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang, China
• ⁵ Department of Gastrointestinal (Tumor) Surgery, Guangdong Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, Guangdong, China
• ⁶ Department of Surgical Oncology, Regional Cancer Centre Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695011, India 7 Department of Oncology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

The whole world is going through an unprecedented period during the pandemic of COVID-19. This pandemic has affected all aspects of daily life with far-reaching implications, especially in most aspects of healthcare. Practice of surgery across the globe is in a standstill as of now. When we restart surgical practices across world, we have to bring new protocols and practices in place to combat the transmission. This article discusses the major changes in surgical practice, which need to be brought in. This article is based on scientific information about transmission of virus and experiences of some of the authors from China, a country which successfully dealt with and contained the virus outbreak.

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