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PURPOSE: The purpose of this article is to report a bilateral conjunctivitis case in a patient with confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). CASE REPORT/OBSERVATIONS: A 24-year-old healthy man developed severe conjunctivitis in his right eye, followed by his left eye 4 days after fever and myalgia. He reported yellowish conjunctival discharge, foreign body sensation, redness, and tearing, and those symptoms were resolved in 10 days. Analyses of nasopharyngeal secretions identified SARS-CoV-2 by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). CONCLUSION: Mild COVID-19 can cause severe bilateral conjunctivitis. The ophthalmologist may be aware of conjunctival secretions, a possible path of infection, during eye checkup.

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COVID-19/complicações , Túnica Conjuntiva/patologia , Conjuntivite/etiologia , Infecções Oculares Virais/etiologia , COVID-19/diagnóstico , COVID-19/virologia , Túnica Conjuntiva/virologia , Conjuntivite/diagnóstico , Conjuntivite/virologia , DNA Viral/análise , Infecções Oculares Virais/diagnóstico , Infecções Oculares Virais/virologia , Humanos , Masculino , SARS-CoV-2/genética , Adulto Jovem