Routes for COVID-19 importation in Brazil

Journal of travel medicine

Candido, D. D. S.; Watts, A.; Abade, L.; Kraemer, M. U. G.; Pybus, O. G.; Croda, J.; Oliveira, W.; Khan, K.; Sabino, E. C.; Faria, N. R.

Abstract

The global outbreak caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been declared a pandemic by the WHO. As the number of imported SARS-CoV-2 cases is on the rise in Brazil, we use incidence and historical air travel data to estimate the most important routes of importation into the country.

Keywords

Coronavirus, brazil, disease outbreaks, severe acute respiratory syndrome, air travel, pandemics, sars-cov-2, covid-19