Recommendation for Resuming Elective Surgery during the Normalising Period in COVID-19 Pandemic

摘要

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infection caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. It began at the end of 2019 in the Hubei province of China and quickly expanded worldwide. The World Health Organisation announced the determination of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 31 January, 2020, and later proclaimed a global pandemic on 10 March, 2020. The first case in Turkey was officially declared on 11 March, 2020.