Indicadores epidemiológicos para SARS-CoV-2 na região Sudoeste do Paraná

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19 disease, is easily transmitted between people, triggering a pandemic and causing millions of deaths worldwide. Thus, epidemiological investigations are needed in order to help understand the severity of the disease and delimit groups more likely to contract the infection. This study aims to verify the epidemiological indicators of cases detected for SARS-CoV-2 in the city of Realeza/PR. For this, data from the Information Bulletin of the State Health Department or the Information Bulletin of the COVID-19 diagnostic laboratory, implemented at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS) campus Realeza, were used. This laboratory uses the polymerase chain reaction technique for quantitative reverse transcriptase (RT-qPCR), the gold standard for the diagnosis of COVID-19, as a form of detection. Based on these data, a descriptive, epidemiological and quantitative study was carried out, which showed the highest incidence of cases in female individuals aged 21 to 30 years. There was also a significant increase in the number of cases in March, which was the month with the highest number of positive diagnoses for SARS-CoV-2.