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When the COVID-19 outbreak started in Italy, new guidelines for tissue and cell donation were promptly issued.
In accordance with these recommendations, in all Italian eye banks, we perform a careful medical anamnesis to exclude donors with premortem clinical symptoms compatible with COVID-19, followed by postmortem nasopharyngeal swab for all donors classified as eligible. Such a strict protocol, aimed at providing a COVID-19-free route to corneal transplantation, was based on