Introduction:

The cared illnesses constitute an important problem of health for the individual and for the general population. Due to the sanitary danger that bears the international trips and the risk of introduction of illnesses cared in the county, an investigation was carried out.

Objective:

To characterize the travelers notified to the COVID-19 with infection source abroad according to basic reproductive number in Camagüey's province.

Methods:

A observational, descriptive, traverse study was carried out. The study universe was constituted by all the travelers notified with the COVID-19 in the county that fulfilled the inclusion approaches and exclusion.

Results:

The scenario of intervention of 70% of those notified was the isolation centers for travelers, prevailing those coming from Venezuela and the month of March was that of more incidence, 100% came from areas of transmission of the illness, 55% was asymptomatic in the moment of the diagnosis and the basic reproductive number was smaller than one in the destination municipalities and at provincial level.

Conclusions:

The centers of isolations for travelers diminished the risk of dispersion of the illness in the destination municipalities, the notified travelers had high probability of making sick to come from countries with transmission of the illness and the asymptomatic ones worsen the performance scenario.

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