The scientific team investigated in detail nearly three hundred cases of Covid-19. And he found that 5.8 percent of those infected were wearing glasses for eight hours a day because of myopia.
In the population of Hubei Province, however, there are many more bespectacled people – almost 32 percent, according to statistics. This suggests that people who wear glasses are about five times less likely to catch Covid-19, he writes British Daily Mail.
“Our main finding is that patients with Covid-19, who also wear glasses for much of the day, are relatively rare. This may be the initial evidence that regular wearers of glasses are less prone to infection,” the authors write in a study published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology.
The researchers believe that the disparity is due to the fact that the ACE-2 receptors, through which the dangerous virus enters the human body, are found in the eyes.
And they hypothesized that glasses discourage wearers from touching their eyes. As a result, they avoid transmitting the disease from their hands to them.
Other studies have recently revealed that the eyes produce these ACE-2 and are organs that are the primary targets of coronavirus. Researchers have found the coronavirus not only on the surface of the eyes, but also in tears that can transmit it.
The disease can also manifest itself in various eye problems – such as redness or swelling. According to the Daily Mail, about 12 percent of patients have these symptoms.
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