First Cuban community quarantined by COVID-19

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QUARANTINE, PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, PANDEMIC FOR THE NEW CORONAVIRUS 2019, DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS

Abstract

Introduction: the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of international importance, a situation from which Cuba does not escape.

Objective: to characterize clinical and epidemiologically the event caused by COVID-19 at Camilo Cienfuegos community in Consolación del Sur municipality, Pinar del Rio province.

Methods: an observational, descriptive, longitudinal and prospective research was carried out during the period from March to May 2020 in the above-mentioned community, which was confirmed in epidemiological quarantine, with 10 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The epidemiological SPIDER search tool, the chronopathology and the map of the location of the positive cases were drawn up.

Results: in the socio-demographic characterization of the community, male sex, the age group from 0 to 19 years old, way of transmission, Cuban citizens, the favorable evolution of the disease, and the short incubation period predominated. The health actions implemented in the first phases in order to deal with the disease were described.

Conclusions: the epidemiological event caused by COVID-19 was clinical and epidemiologically characterized. The importance of an adequate implementation of the strategies described for the control of the disease was presented, where prevention actions from Primary Health Care are essential.

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Author Biographies

Julio Cesar Candelaria Brito, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Policlínico Universitario 5 de Septiembre, Consolación del Sur. Pinar del Río. Cuba.

Especialista de II Grado en MGI. Profesor Auxiliar

Sergio Alberto Díaz Cruz, Dirección Municipal de Salud. Consolación del Sur. Pinar del Río, Cuba.

Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina General Integral. Profesor Asistente. Dirección Municipal de Salud en Consolación del Sur

Dulce María Acosta Pérez, Centro Municipal de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Consolación del Sur. Cuba.

Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina General Integral e Higiene y Epidemiología. Profesor Asistente. Centro Municipal de Higiene y Epidemiología en Consolación del Sur

Bárbra Junco Sena, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Policlínico Comunitario Docente con camas de hospitalización 1º de Enero. Consolación del Sur. Pinar del Río. Cuba.

Licenciada en Enfermería. Especialista de Primer Grado en Higiene y Epidemiología. Profesora Auxiliar. Investigadora agregada. Policlínico 1 de Enero

Alina Rodríguez Méndez, Centro Municipal de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Consolación del Sur. Cuba

Licenciada en Enfermería. Especialista de Primer Grado en Higiene y Epidemiología. Profesora Auxiliar. Investigadora agregada

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2020-05-29

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Candelaria Brito JC, Díaz Cruz SA, Acosta Pérez DM, Junco Sena B, Rodríguez Méndez A. First Cuban community quarantined by COVID-19. Rev Ciencias Médicas [Internet]. 2020 May 29 [cited 2025 Sep. 20];24(3):e4485. Available from: https://revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/4485

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