A snapshot of urgent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy care during the COVID‐19 outbreak in Italy

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly become epidemic in Italy.1 On March 9, 2020, the lockdown was officially declared by Italian Government and the Phase 1 has started. During this phase, our region (Lazio) was not involved in the severe spreading of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) as in the Northern Italian regions. Despite that, one measure adopted in hospital setting was a progressive re-organization in...