Description of Covid-19 Cases in Brazil and Italy
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Description of Covid-19 Cases in Brazil and Italy Luiz Philipe de Souza Ferreira 1 & Thiago Maciel Valente 2 & Fernanda Assunção Tiraboschi 2 & Guilherme Pinheiro Ferreira da Silva 1,3 Accepted: 6 May 2020 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract The emergence of Covid-19 started in China and has rapidly spread across the globe, notably in Italy and more recently to Brazil. This is a very worrying situation for the affected countries. This Brief Communication aims to describe and correlate the number of confirmed cases and deaths of Covid-19 in Brazil and Italy. This is a descriptive and retrospective study that used data collated on the World Health Organization (WHO) online platform between 21 January and 19 April 2020. After analyzing the data, it was observed that the number of confirmed cases and deaths in Brazil is lower than that in Italy. There are certain factors in Brazil which see it in a lower risk position than Italy; however, despite the current slow spread of the virus, the situation in Brazil is difficult to predict. Keywords COVID-19 . Epidemiology . Coronavirus disease . COVID-19 . 2019-nCoV . Pandemic
Introduction In Wuhan City, Hubei, China, on December 31, 2019, pneumonia cases of unknown etiology were reported to the government. Forty-four patients had pneumonia during the period from December 31, 2019, to January 3, 2020 [1, 2]. Between 11 and 12 of January, it was discovered that the unknown etiology was associated with the free sale of seafood and wild animals in the Wuhan market. The spread of Covid-19 occurred quickly, a total of 282 cases had been confirmed in China, 2 cases in Thailand, 1 case in Japan, and 1 case in the Republic of Korea [1–3]. The virus spread rapidly in the western Pacific, Southeast Asia, Eastern Mediterranean, African, and European regions, registering two cases in Italy on January 31, 2020, before arriving in the Americas [4, 5] and spreading to Brazil, where
This article is part of the Topical Collection on Covid-19 * Luiz Philipe de Souza Ferreira [email protected] 1
Department of Physiotherapy, Division of Health Sciences Center, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
2
Department of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences Center, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
3
Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
the first confirmed case of Covid-19 infection was registered on February 27, 2020 [6, 7]. The appearance of Covid-19 demonstrates a concern for Brazil, which has previously dealt with socioeconomic problems since the arrival of other endemic viral pathologies, such as dengue, Zika virus (ZIKV), and chikungunya in 2013 [8]. Zika virus was declared a national public health emergency by the Brazilian Ministry of Health in 2015 and a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 [9, 10]. In January 2016, 30,000 cases of infection and 1118 suspected cases of microcephaly were registered, a consequence of vertical transmission
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