Conjunctiva is not a preferred gateway of entry for SARS‐CoV‐2 to infect respiratory tract

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Conjunctiva is not a preferred gateway of entry for SARS-CoV-2 to infect respiratory tract To the Editor, We read with interest the article of Xia et al 1 on the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in tears and conjunctival secretions from patients with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Xia et al 1 reported that conjunctivitis was found only in one patient out of 30 cases with confirmed COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in tears and con-

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