SARS-COV-2 related infections, recoveries and deaths five hundred days since the first case was reported in Colombia Contagios, recuperados y fallecidos por SARS-COV-2 quinientos días después del primer reporte en Colombia

Abstract

Introduction: coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus. Cases of unknown microbial etiology were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) originating from the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on December 31 2019. Objective: to analyze the trend of COVID-19 infection, recoveries and deaths in Colombia in the period between March 6 2020 and July 18 2021, which corresponds to 500 days after the first positive case was registered in the country. Methodology: an experimental research design was used. Data was obtained from the National Institute of Health website.  Results: it was established that the highest peak of infection occurred on June 26 2021 (day 478) with 33.594 infections, the highest peak of recovered people was reported on July 6 2021 (day 488) with 37.904 recoveries, and the highest number of deaths was registered on June 21 2021 (day 473) with 754 deaths. Conclusion: it is essential to understand potential COVID–19 outbreak dynamics in our country, since the newly emerged disease has shown high contagiousness and exponential growth. Thus, the daily new cases curve in Colombia has contributed to explain the epidemiologic curve of the country.