COVID-19 and EYE
COVID-19 and EYE

Summary/Abstract: Introduction: This article was designed to highlight the incidence of ocular manifestations in patients diagnosed with coronavirus (COVID-19), which results from severe acute respiratory syndrome. Findings: Extremely intense respiratory disease COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel infection that is causing a progressive pandemic in 2020. In spite of the fact that patients afflicted with SARS-CoV-2 by and large show respiratory symptoms, atypical signs, for example, conjunctivitis, are additionally observed. There are a number of cases where transcriptase polymerase chain reaction tests (RT-PCR) on tears have demonstrated the presence of the infection. Notwithstanding this, the transmission of the infection through tears remains unclear. Conclusion: Although coronavirus (COVID-19), is the primary respiratory disease, it has also been shown to be present in the eye or in the conjunctival swab or in tears. Several cases are described where the patient had no other problems, only conjunctivitis. That is why it is necessary to pay attention during the examination itself, that conjunctivitis does not have to be only viral or bacterial, but it can also point us to the general coronavirus disease.

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