Background and study aims:The health care workers at endoscopy units are at a high risk of  COVID-19 infection. ‎Several guidelines for COVID-19 infection control measures at endoscopy units are ‎available. However, the knowledge and practice of endoscopists toward these measures are ‎not evaluated. We aimed to assess the level of knowledge and practice of Egyptian ‎gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopists for these measures‎‎.
Patients and Method:‎An online questionnaire was filled  by the GI endoscopists. It consisted of 4 sections; the ‎demographic features of the participants, pre-endoscopic infection control measures, during ‎endoscopy on COVID-19 patients measures and post-endoscopic measures. Each of the ‎last 3 sections contained questions assessing the knowledge and practices of the ‎endoscopists. The answers to some questions were set up as ‘yes' or ‘no' and the other ‎questions required selecting the appropriate answer‎‎.‎
Results: A total of 120 participants completed the questionnaire. About half had endoscopic ‎experience between 5 and 10 years. The overall correct answers regarding the knowledge ‎were 45.6% while 62.2% for the practice. Low percent of correct answers was related to ‎the personal protective equipment (PPE) use. About 56.7%  and 58.3% found their level of ‎knowledge and practices to be fair, respectively‎‎‎‎‎.
Conclusion: The knowledge of the infection control against COVID-19 was insufficient among GI ‎endoscopists particularly PPE use. Meanwhile, the practice was relatively adequate due to ‎hospital policies of strict application of infection control measures‎‎‎‎.