All these studies have focused on HIV and HBV and have shown rather low peritoneal contamination. No study to date has considered SARS-CoV-2. Studies have evaluated contamination risk for similar earlier viruses (Middle East coronavirus MERS CoV) but their results cannot be extrapolated to laparoscopy [10]. There is no expert consensus on the actual or extrapolated presence of ambient SARS-CoV-2 in the pneumoperitoneum as factual evidence is lacking [11].