Disseminação do COVID 19 na Região do Oeste Potiguar

Abstract

In Brazil, one of the countries most affected by the propagation of ví­rus Sars-CoV-2, health authorities and social segments in general still try to understand the trajectory and the way the pandemic spread in the territory. What is known, for sure, is that the expansion took place from the large centers to the interior of the country. However, it is necessary to study specific cases to better understand the variables that affect the spread of COVID-19, especially in the interior of northeast, whose majoruty of the municipalities, has na irregular water spply, and it doesn"™t even have a sewage collection and treatment system. This study aims to map the dissemination of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the western region of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, between March and July 2020. For this, a database was built from epidemiological bulletins to monitor the numbers of those contaminated by COVID-19, whose source was the State Health Department of RN. Subsequently, mapping of spatial diffusion in the disease was performed using the software QGIS 3.4. Data analysis showed us that four months after the first case in the state, there was a total of 8,878 contaminated inhabitants in 62 municipalities in the western region potiguar. Some municipalities were more affected than others, showing geographical factors, such as proximity to regional centers and the presence of federal highways. The spatialization of COVID-19 data allowed an analysis of how the disease spread in this region in the Northeast.