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SÃO PAULO, MAY 11 (ANSA) – The new coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) began to circulate in Brazil in late January, more than a month before the date of official registration of the first case, February 26, in São Paulo, according to a study published on Monday (11) by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).
According to the survey, while countries in Europe and America were monitoring travelers to identify imported cases of Covid-19, community transmission of the disease was already underway.
In Brazil, in turn, the virus began to spread around the first week of February, that is, before the Carnival holiday. The first virus death in the country was registered in Rio de Janeiro, in the fourth epidemiological week, between January 19 and 25. The local or community broadcast was underway in São Paulo on February 4, well before March 13, the date of official records, the data reported.
The study was carried out using a statistical inference methodology, which uses death records as a basis, in addition to case analyzes of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
In an interview with the newspaper “O Globo”, the research coordinator, Gonzalo Bello, from the AIDS and Molecular Immunology Laboratory of the IOC / Fiocruz, warns about the silent spread of the disease, in addition to the need to carry out tests of suspected cases respiratory virus. (ANSA)
