Espacialização E Características Socioespaciais Das Pessoas Infectadas Por Covid-19 Em Porto Nacional (29/04/2020 – 31/08/2021)

Abstract

A pandemic is a worldwide dissemination of a new disease in great proportions that spreads

itself in several countries, and that affects more than one continent. The Coronavirus (SARS- CoV-2), discovered in 2019, causes respiratory infections, developing the disease named

Covid-19. Brazil has gotten into a tense moment due to this virus in March 2020. The main gateways to Coronavirus were the airports with international connections, accessed by people who arrived from different countries. Already in Brazil, the Coronavirus disseminates internally through regional airports, highways, and waterways. In Tocantins state, Covid-19 was initially disseminated through regional airports and highways. Porto Nacional registered the first Covid-19 case on April 19th, 2020.This paper presents the socio-spatial characteristics provoked by Covid-19 in Porto Nacional from March 19th 2020 to August 31st 2021. So, this paper could be accomplished, we’ve used data from epidemiological newsletters, and the ones of daily people care with the notification of the disease obtained through Vigilância Epidemiológica (Epidemiological Surveillance) of Porto Nacional. We’ve also used spatialization maps in the Covid-19 cases per sector in urban areas in the municipality. The women were the ones who presented positive the most cases for Covid-19, while men were the ones who had more deaths. The period of the greater number of deaths occurred during the second wave of the disease in the municipality. The greatest number of people hospitalized by Covid-19 were hospitalized in public hospitals.