Recent epidemic of covid-19: A prospect of cases and deaths in the state of Maranhão
International Journal of Development Research
Recent epidemic of covid-19: A prospect of cases and deaths in the state of Maranhão
Article History: Received 17th October, 2020; Received in revised form 19th November, 2020; Accepted 02nd December, 2020; Published online 30th January, 2021.
Copyright © 2021, Mara Izabel Carneiro Pimentel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To describe the number of confirmed cases and deaths by COVID-19 in the State of Maranhão. Descriptive, documentary and retrospective study, using secondary data extracted from the COVID-19 Epidemiological Bulletin of the State of Maranhão from April 1st to September 30th. The following were considered: confirmed cases of COVID-19, deaths by age group, date of occurrence, associated comorbidities. The data are public and are available in the health system's online bulletins. There were 173,564 confirmed cases and 3,756 registered deaths. The evolution of COVID-19 cases by date was greater on September 2, totaling 1,787 cases in that period. The evolution of deaths by date shows that the months of July and August had the highest rates of death records by COVID-19, with a fall in the month of September. Higher rates of confirmed cases occurred in men. Deaths occurred more in the elderly over 70 years of age. Arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus were the most comorbidities related to deaths. It is concluded that this research contributes to a greater reflection that COVID-19 has negative proportions and impacts for the population and mainly for the elderly population, where the highest death rates occurred exactly in the elderly.
