Coronavirus and the current scenario
Conjunctivitis, often referred to as "pink eyes" is an inflammation of the eyeball
Due to the spread of COVID-19 across the world, the American Academy of Ophthalmology shared specific information that is closely related to Coronavirus. The virus is called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is highly contagious and can cause a severe respiratory disease named COVID-19.
How Does The Transmission Take Place?
The transmission spreads from one person to another by the respiratory droplets of the infected one. If the person carrying the virus sneezes and coughs, the droplets may reach the other persons in close surroundings. Moreover, it might spread when one comes in contact with the surface, later touches his eyes, nose or mouth, where the virus already exists from an infected individual.
The growing number of evidence suggests that asymptomatic transmission is another reason for spreading the disease. There is a high possibility that the disease will spread from an infected person to the family members. In almost half of such transmissions that came out to be positive were asymptomatic on the first day of the test.
Those “undocumented infections” (asymptomatic or symptomatic) unable to fulfill the testing criteria are gradually becoming more in counts than those who have been tested positive.
The average duration of the viral shedding is twenty days and observed thirty-seven days as the maximum duration. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in China, has warned before about this coronavirus outbreak. He died of it, affirming that a patient of asymptomatic glaucoma infected him.
