Covid-19 no município de Parnaíba-PI: cenários epidemiológicos setembro a dezembro de 2023

Abstract

This book is a production of the extension project “Information for Action: Health Communication as a Strategy to Combat Compulsory Notifiable Diseases and Injuries in the Municipality of Parnaíba-PI”, resulting from the union between the State University of Piauí, Epidemiological Surveillance and the PNVS-Community program of the Ministry of Health, which presents the epidemiological bulletin of a four-monthly edition from September to December 2023, which aims to carry out a continuous analysis of the health situation in the municipality of Parnaíba-PI regarding tests, cases and deaths by COVID-19. An increasing trend was observed in the number of tests performed during the epidemiological weeks studied. From the data presented, a positivity rate of 29.3% was observed combined with a decreasing trend in the evolution of COVID-19 cases. The epidemiological profile of patients is female, brown, predominantly adults, living in the neighborhoods of Piauí, São Francisco da Guarita, Frei Higino, Dirceu Arcoverde and Rodoviária. The symptoms reported by symptomatic patients were cough, runny nose, sore throat, fever and headache, with a minority of asymptomatic patients.