Epidemiological co-occurrence of dengue and Covid-19 in Peru

Carhuamaca A.D.; Quispe P.M.H.; Ríos R.H.T.; Gago D.O.; Rodriguez M.N.C. · Boletin de Malariologia y Salud Ambiental (2023) · DOI: 10.52808/bmsa.8e7.63ee.011

Resumen

In Peru, dengue disease continues to increase during the Covid-19 pandemic, being a matter of concern for public health. For this reason, a descriptive-retrospective study was carried out with secondary data from the MINSA notification sheets for both dengue and Covid-19, applying epidemiological indicators such as accumulated incidence rate for dengue, attack rate for covid-19 and elaboration of channels. endemic. As a result, the epidemiological behavior of dengue between 2018-2021 was endemic with peaks in the epidemiological week SE 46-2019, SE 47-2019 and SE 50-2021, with respect to SARS-CoV-2, for 2022, it had an Rt value = 2.08 (1.07-3.56) (>1), that is, the contagion rate is higher than the recovery rate, however, to explain whether the advent of Covid-19 had an influence on the behavior of the dengue incidence, the construction of the enemic channels for 2019, 2020 and 2021, allowed us to observe that this arbovirosis has an endemic behavior between EW 1 to 40 of 2019 (areas of success and safety); while, apart from EW 41-2019, a fluctuating epidemic behavior is observed, which leaves the epidemic area only in the periods of EW 17 to 26 of 2020 and 15 to 21 of 2021. It is highly relevant to note that this The epidemic outbreak began 20 weeks before the declaration of the first SARS-CoV-2 infection in Peru. Finally, it is concluded that the behavior of dengue in this nation is independent of the co-occurrence with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Instituciones: Universidad Continental; Universidad Nacional de Cañete; Universidad Autónoma de Ica