Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2020 May 15;73(7):1348–1356. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2020.05.002

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2020 British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

PMC Copyright notice

The chart shows the outpatient Minor Surgery (local anaesthetic) activity during the overall “COVID-19” period (7 weeks 2020) and during the corresponding period of 2019.

Important dates are shown February 21: first COVID-19 in Italy. March 3: first COVID-19 patients at the Sant'Orsola University Hospital. March 9: limitation of elective surgery. March 13: STOP of elective surgery.