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On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic. In areas where a large number of individuals become infected, the local resources might become insufficient and a specific plan should be made for the most severe cases and hospital admission. Based on this observation, new unprecedented measures have been taken in the north of Italy. Social distancing and cities lock down was to limit interaction among individuals and virus diffusion. For the general population, but in particular for dialysis patients, a special set of recommendations are made not to access directly hospital facilities in case of symptoms but rather follow specific triage pathways. Dialysis centers in large hospitals should offer specific plans for patients. While hemodialysis (HD) patients need to be triaged at every access for their dialysis session, peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients should be subject to specific recommendations and guidelines. We schematically report our policy to prevent virus dissemination among PD patients as far as regular treatment and complications management.