Patient – practitioner communication and contact lens compliance during a prolonged COVID-19 lockdown

Following the statement of the Health World Organization declaring coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic [1], the rapidly increasing number of contagions and foreseeable saturation of the public and private health service intensive care units in Spain prompted the declaration of a nationwide State of Alarm on March 13, 2020, and a lockdown of all non-essential sectors was imposed on March 14, 2020. On April 28, 2020, the government announced a plan for easing lockdown restrictions consisting of four de-escalation phases to which different regions of Spain could progressively transition according to health indicators such as number of cases and capacity of the healthcare system.
Source: Contact Lens and Anterior Eye - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Source Type: research