There can be multiple reasons behind why coronavirus can lead to eye twitching. One such reason can be inflammation of certain cranial nerves causing small tremors in the muscles that control your eyeball. The cranial nerves transmit messages between various parts of the brain, including your eyes, ears, and nose. Inflammation of these nerves can affect the eyes, leading to twitching, spasms, and other neuromuscular symptoms.
Eye twitching while infected with coronavirus has also been linked to anxiety and increased screen time. Mental health stress or anxiety, which has increased during the pandemic, can cause eye twitching or spasms. Fatigue due to increased screen time and media consumption, which has also been observed during the pandemic, can lead to these tremors in the eyes. In a report, about 80% of people polled experienced COVID symptoms like headache or eye twitching.