Epidemiological situation of the Covid-19 infection and effectiveness of public health strategies

Abstract

In the present investigation, the information on systematizing the evidence reported on the epidemiology of Covid-19infection and the effectiveness of public health strategies was analyzed. Following the identification of a new coronavirus, the disease was designated coronavirus-19, the spread and severity of which led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it an international emergency on January 30, 2020. The current report describes the epidemiology of patients and confirms the Coronavirus 2019: 5.91% of the world population (7,965,424,797) was infected and the mortality rate was 1.29%. One of the countries with the most infections in 2022 is Germany with 37.49% of the population and a mortality rate of 0.46%. At the beginning of the pandemic, 56,935 infections and 2.89 percent of deaths were reported, according to detailed data provided by INEC Ecuador for 2020. It was concluded that the prevalence of patients with Covid-19continues to be predominantly male, as is than in other cases reported in different parts of the world, in addition to a series of other diseases, mainly overweight as a risk factor in the disease studied.