(1) Medical supplies. Delivery of pregnant women with confirmed COVlD-19should be carried out in a delivery room or operating room with negative-pressure isolation conditions. PPE for medical staff and medical devices should be labelled with COVlD-19 stickers and placed and sterilized separately. Obstetric rescue medicines, blood products and neonatal asphyxia resuscitation equipment should be well prepared.

(2) Preparation for Treatment. Childbirth of pregnant women with confirmed COVlD-19 require multidisciplinary cooperation and co-treatment, including obstetrics,anaesthesiology, operating room, lCU, respiration or communicable disease, neonatal, hospital infection control and medical affairs departments.

(3) Specimen for testing. lt is recommended that pharyngeal swabs and blood samples of pregnant women and newborns as well as placenta specimens are taken in the labour room or the operating room and sent for nucleic acid testing.

(4) Personal protection. Protect medical staff and take disinfection and isolation measures during labour and birth or surgery.

(5) For pregnant women suspected of COVlD-19 without confirmed test results, childbirth or surgery preparation protocols should be the same as that of confirmed cases.