Impactos do período pandêmico da COVID-19 na notificação dos casos de arboviroses na região Nordeste do Brasil

Abstract

Arboviruses are large-scale viral diseases in Latin America and are transmitted through the Aedes aegypti mosquito. In Brazilian territory, the most common pathologies are dengue, Zika and Chikungunya, which have become a public health problem in the country. Concomitantly with endemic arboviruses, Brazil in the years 2020 to 2022 caused a pandemic of COVID-19, a highly contagious respiratory disease. The objective of this article is to verify the impact during the COVID-19 pandemic period in relation to the notification of cases of dengue, Zika and Chikungunya in the Northeast region of Brazil . The descriptive exploratory study method with a quantitative basis was used with data from the northeast region obtained from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN). For the time frame, the years without a pandemic (2017, 2018 and 2019) were used, compared to the years with a pandemic (2020, 2021 and 2022). In the non-pandemic three-year period, there were 645,171 reported cases of arboviruses in the Northeast region of Brazil. In the Pandemic three-year period, the data totaled 958,885 reported cases. A growth of 48.62% was observed in the Northeast region during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.