ANALYSIS OF THE INTRA-URBAN SPATIALIZATION OF CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-19 IN THE COMMUNITY OF TRÊS LAGOAS-MS IN 2020

• Autor(a) principal: Dubos-Raoul, Marine
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Jhiovanna Eduarda Braghin, Borges, Diego da Silva, Silva, Mauro Henrique Soares, Decco, Hermiliano Felipe
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hygeia (Uberlândia)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/hygeia/article/view/73365
• topic: Pandemia; Mapeamento; Desigualdades socioespaciais; Pandemic; Mapping; Socio-spatial inequalities

The Covid-19 pandemic quickly spread around the world. Governments adopted measures of restriction and social distancing in order to contain the spread of the virus and thus avoid overloading health systems, where such measures were not taken, or were taken partially, which resulted in greater circulation of the virus. This study aims to analyse the spatialization of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the different neighbourhoods of the city of Três Lagoas-MS according to their socio-economic characteristics. Data notified and reported by the Três Lagoas Municipal Health Department (SMS) was tabulated and organized. Data for the year 2020 (05/2020 to 01/2021) was chosen, referring to positive cases, deaths and incidence on a neighborhood scale. In order to understand and explain this spatialization, we tried to cross-reference the data provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), with regard to demographics by neighbourhood, nominal monthly income per capita and situation by color or race. By spatializing the incidence rate, it was possible to see the neighbourhoods where the incidence rates were highest. By cross-referencing the income and race data, it was possible to see that the virus first hit the neighborhoods where the higher social classes live and then spread more widely. In this way, it was possible to see that the characteristics of the territory define the spread of the virus in space and that the urban territorial organization ends up creating spatial inequalities and consequently having repercussions on the less favored social groups in the expansion of Covid-19.