Short Communication
Volume 11 Issue 5 - 2020
Route of COVID-19 Ocular Transmission and its Impact
Pachiappan Arjunan*
Department of Periodontics, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Dental College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
*Corresponding Author: Pachiappan Arjunan, Department of Periodontics, Culver Vision Discovery Institute, Dental College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.
Received: April 02, 2020; Published: April 30, 2020



There is heightened anxiety and inquisitiveness regarding the global public health threat caused by coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) which became a pandemic in 2019 - 2020 [1], with China being the epicenter of transmission. As of April, 01-2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) numbers released for the COVID-19 outbreak situation was approximately 827,419 confirmed cases and nearly 40,777 deaths [2].

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Citation: Pachiappan Arjunan. “Route of COVID-19 Ocular Transmission and its Impact”. EC Ophthalmology 11.5 (2020): 69-72.

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