PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT EYES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Ramzi Amin (The Ophthalmology Departement of Medical Faculty Universitas SriwijayaPalembang)
Petty Purwanita (The Ophthalmology Departement of Medical Faculty Universitas SriwijayaPalembang)
Prima Maya Sari

Conferences of Medical Sciences Dies Natalis
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): Conference of Medical Sciences Dies Natalis Faculty of Medicine Universitas Sri

In December 2019, a case of pneumonia of unknown etiology first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. (1) The etiology was finally identified and showed a new type of coronavirus, which was given the tentative name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the name of the new virus, namely Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the name of the disease as Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).Indonesia reported its first two confirmed cases of COVID-19 inMarch 2, 2020. As of September 8, 2020, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia was 200,035, with 8,230 deaths (CFR 6.9%).