Temporal and spatial characteristics of the spread of COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro state and city | medRxiv preprint (not peer-reviewed)

Type Web Page Author Douglas Ferreira Author Paul Ferreira Author Paulo Oliveira Jr. Author Jennifer Ribeiro Author Elicardo Goncalves Author Andres Papa URL https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101113v1 Date 19/05/2020 Accessed 2020-07-05 13:32:27 Abstract From the first cases detected in Wuhan, China, of infections by the disease of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, until the present moment of this pandemic, millions of people have already been infected and hundreds of thousands have died worldwide. The way in which the virus has been dispersed in Brazil, and more specifically in Rio de Janeiro, is the motivation of the present work. Our studies consist of analyzing temporal and spatial characteristics of the spread of COVID-19 in the municipalities of the state of Rio de Janeiro and in the neighborhoods of the state capital, based on open data published by the Health Departments of Governments of the State of RJ and the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, covering the period from February 27, 2020 to April 27, 2020. For that, we use analysis of time evolution graphs and mappings of spatial distributions and statistics analysis of spatial correlation. Our results suggest that the initial stages of spreading the virus across the state occur exponentially, with specific regions with a higher concentration of rates of cases, deaths and recovered people. Website Title medRxiv The Preprint Server for Health Sciences