Introduction:

Covid-19 have been affecting the worldwide population for a number of months, Cuba nation and Artemisa province have not been exempt from this situation.

Objective:

to characterize Covid-19 confirmed-positive cases in Artemisa province.

Methods:

an observational, descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective research was conducted in patients diagnosed with Covid-19 in Artemisa province up to July 18th, 2020. Data were collected from the Department of Statistics in Artemisa province, and from the daily reports published by the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba in its official website. Descriptive statistics was applied to analyze the data by means of absolute and relative percentage frequencies.

Results:

in Artemisa province 2435 tests of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) where analyzed and of them 38 cases were confirmed positive. The rate of incidence respect this disease reached 7,4 per 100 thousand inhabitants. Nine of the eleven municipalities comprising Artemisa province presented confirmed- positive cases, Bauta added 31,6 % of the provincial accumulation. The 76,3 % of confirmed-positive cases were contact of other infected people. The 97,4 % of the infected the patients recovered and one patient died. The 55,26 % of confirmed- positive patients were male.

Conclusions:

the novel coronavirus represents a great challenge for Artemisa province. When the research concluded it was verified that the clinical characteristics of these 38 Covid-19 patients, behaved similar to the rest of the infected patients in Cuba: the disease prevailed in male sex.

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