Abstract: The epidemic of the novel coronavirus pneumonia broke out has drawn great attention from all walks of life. With the spread of the epidemic, which has brought huge challenges to public health prevention and control and clinical diagnosis and treatment systems at home and abroad. The new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is a type of coronavirus (short as CoV). Since the isolation of human coronavirus in 1965, a total of seven coronaviruses have been found to cause human disease. There is evidence that conjunctiva is one of the entrances to SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 may be transmitted through the ocular surface, but clinical data and laboratory evidence on ocular infection with SARS-CoV-2 are currently lacking. We pay attention to novel coronavirus pneumonia, and retrospectively analyze related research on ocular diseases caused by viral infections, to better prevent and treat ocular viral infections, help to protect eyes during the epidemic, standardize ophthalmic diagnosis and treatment system, and propose scientific prevention and control measures.

Key words: SARS-CoV-2, ocular surface, virus, infection, prevention and control