SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: A perspective from environmental virology

Demoliner, Meriane; Gularte, Juliana Schons; Girardi, Viviane; Almeida, Paula Rodrigues de; Weber, Matheus Nunes; Eisen, Ana Karolina Antunes; Fleck, Juliane Deise; Spilki, Fernando Rosado

doi:10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2020-0228

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Articles • Genet. Mol. Biol. 44 (1 Suppl 1) • 2021 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2020-0228 linkcopy

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: A perspective from environmental virology

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December 2019 marked the beginning of the current Coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19). Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified as the causative agent of a viral pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The alarming spread levels and clinical severity elevated the status of COVID-19 to the global pandemic by the World Health Organization. In 6 months, more than 25 million cases of infected people and more than 890,000 deaths by COVID-19 had been reported worldwide. The main goal of this review is to shed light upon the current COVID-19 epidemic situation in Brazil with a health approach highlighting some unique environmental, animal and epidemiological aspects.

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SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; environmental virology; Brazil; disease pandemic

	Cases of COVID-19		Deaths by COVID-19
Region of Brazil	Cumulative number	Per million inhabitants	Cumulative number	Per million inhabitants
Southeast	1,158,423	1,310.90	48,214	54.6
Northeast	1,018,476	1,784.60	32,108	56.30
North	473,725	2,570.30	12,670	68.7
South	321.217	1,071,60	7,079	23.6
Center-West	345,255	2,188.50	7,161	43.9

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[TFN1] *The data of cases and deaths of COVID-19 in the regions of Brazil for the 33rd epidemiological week was obtained from the 27th Special Epidemiological Bulletin COE-COVID-19 published by the Ministry of Health and the Health Surveillance Secretariat (SVS) of Brazil (Ministério da Saúde do Brasil, 2020).