Introduction:

Among the limiting measures for COVID-19 is to avoid the entrance of possible ill people from territories with ongoing transmission.

Objective:

To describe the experience of fitting out and functioning of active investigation points for the epidemiologic control of COVID-19 in the provincial borders of Cienfuegos province.

Methods:

It was conducted a research in health systems and services in Cienfuegos province from March to May, 2020. The studied sample was formed by nine investigation points fit out in the borders. Interviews and participative observation were used as research techniques, and the statistics records of each active investigation point were also used.

Results:

Nine points were fit out in the provincial borders which included a protocol for detection of respiratory symptomatic patients and their contacts, and these points had a physician, a technician in epidemiology, two volunteers of the Red Cross and a police officer. 33 891 people travelling in 16 678 vehicles were examined; 0,06% of them were suspicious to the disease, and 4,69% came back to their place of departure after the investigation and the educative intervention on needed social distancing.

Conclusions:

Intersectoral participation was decisive to fit out border points which allowed to implement the investigation of all the travelers that arrived by road to Cienfuegos. Although the incidence of detected suspicious patients was low, the experience was positive and safe because it was part of the measures that reduced to minimun the virus spreading in the province.

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