Introduction:

the World Health Organization on February 12th, 2020 officially named COVID-19 the infectious disease caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Objective:

to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients confirmed with SARS-CoV-2 in Minas de Matahambre municipalty from March 2020 to July 2021.

Methods:

an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted on 1040 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in the municipality from March 2020 to July 31st, 2021 who met the inclusion criteria, the variables studied were: age, sex, race, schooling, marital status, comorbidities, symptoms and origin of infection, the data were obtained from medical records and epidemiological surveys; they were analyzed by descriptive statistics using absolute and relative frequencies.

Results:

autochthonous transmission, male sex (52,1 %), white race (69,1 %), 45 to 59 years of age (27,3 %), high school level and marital status with stable union predominated in the research; fever prevailed (22,1 %) and hypertension was representative among comorbidities (10 %).

Conclusions:

there was a predominance of male sex, 45 to 59 years of age, white race, high school level and marital status of stable union. Personal history of hypertension, ischemic heart disease and diabetes mellitus also predominated; the most frequent symptoms were fever, cough and sore throat.

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