Evolução dos casos de COVID-19 em Uberlândia, MG

Abstract

The first COVID-19 (coronavirus disease, 2019) cases, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2), were detected in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China. In March of the following year, the World Health Organization declared a state of pandemic. The new reality placed the world in a state of alert and, in Brazil, it was up to the municipalities to adopt measures to contain and combat the virus. The use of containment measures and municipal decrees were the ways that the city of Uberlândia´s authorities adopted, based on recommendations by human health organizations, to try to contain the spread of the virus, knowing that social and economic impacts the measures were going to cause, although they were necessary to minimize the impacts in the inhabitants of the city. In 2020, the highest numbers of confirmed cases per week occurred in June, with 1,712, and in October, with 1,625, and the highest number of deaths per week occurred in September, with 49. In 2021, the highest number of cases per week occurred in January, with 2,877, probably due the Christmas and New Year holidays. The highest number of deaths per week was 170, in March. In 2022, the highest number of cases per week occurred in January, with 13,678, and highest number of deaths per week occurred in the same month, with 28. Despite these numbers and the need to provide with more beds in wards and ICUs to care for the patients, the measures seemed to be well succeeded.