2020, Number 1
Epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 carriers in Pinar del Rio province, Cuba
Language: Spanish
References: 22
Page: 1-12
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: To understand the epidemiological evolution of COVID-19 disease will provide appropriate information for guiding the interventions policy with higher efficiency.Objective: To determine the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 carriers.
Methods: Epidemiological, descriptive, longitudinal study conducted in Pinar del Río province from March 20 to June 20, 2020. The study sample was formed by 53 COVID-19 carrier’s cases. The variables analysed were: age, sex, way of contagion, patients per municipalities and events of local transmission occurred. For this analysis, it was used the statistics package called SPSS version 21.0.
Results: The disease was predominant in the female sex (29 patients representing 55.7%), in ages from 30 to 39 years (10 patients representing 19.24%), the direct contact was the main contagion way (47 patients representing 90.38%); the most affected municipality was Guane with 19 patients (39.54%), the highest reproduction rate was in April (2,57), and there were two events of local transmission in the province.
Conclusions: COVID-19 due to its behaviour and from the epidemiological point of view had a favourable evolution which allowed its eradication.
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