Situación epidemiológica del Covid-19 en Sudamérica / Epidemiological Situation Of COVID-19 In South America

RESUMEN

Actualmente la infección por coronavirus (COVID-19) se ha convertido en un problema de salud públicaa nivel mundial. En diciembre del 2019, en la ciudad de Wuhan, provincia de Hubei, China, se reportaronlos primeros casos de neumonía de etiología desconocida, los cuales se incrementaron rápidamente enotras provincias del país. Posteriormente, se identificó al coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 como agente causal y, a mediados de enero del2020 la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) reportó más de 280 casos confirmados de COVID-19 enChina, Tailandia, Japón y Corea.

ABSTRACT

Currently the coronavirus (COVID-19) infection has become a public health problem worldwide. In December 2019, in the city of Wuhan, province of Hubei, China, the first cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology were reported, which incremented rapidly in other provinces of the country. Subsequently, SARS-CoV2 was identified as the causal agent and in mid-January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported over 280 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China, Thailand, Japan and Korea. In South America, the first case of COVID-19 is made known on February 26, 2020 in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, identified as a male patient of 61 years of age from the region of Lombardy in Italy. Soon after there were other confirmed cases imported from the Asian and European continents in other south American countries.