Introduction:

A timely investigation of COVID-19 epidemiological events guarantees to minimize the spread of the disease in the population.

Objective:

To characterize the COVID-19 outbreak of community transmission in a municipality in Havana.

Methods:

Cross-sectional study of positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection of the “Cathedral” outbreak in Old Havana in 2021. The variables analyzed were: age, sex, city block of residence, date of symptom onset, date of diagnosis, clinical manifestations, and type of case. The methodology for the study of outbreaks was used. Percentages, differences in proportions, rates, effective reproductive number, and dispersion parameter with 95% confidence intervals were calculated.

Results:

The outbreak was reported on March 23 and closed on April 22 with 106 cases (attack rate of 4.51%). The peak was notified on March 29 with 40 cases (37.73%). The mean age was 43 years. Adults aged 60 years and older (30.18%), women (58.49%), and block 0024 (45.28% of cases) were most affected. A total of 77.3% were asymptomatic, including two superspreaders; symptomatic cases were mild and there were no deaths. The overall effective reproductive number was 0.94 (CI: 0.70-1.21); higher in asymptomatic cases (11.43 versus 4.00); and the dispersion parameter was 0.89 (CI: 0.51-2.09), higher in symptomatic cases (1.06 versus 0.69).

Conclusions:

Timely epidemiological control of each case ensured the short duration of the outbreak and no deaths.

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