Medisur (Nov 2020)
Experiences in control of COVID-19 outbreak in three positive cases. Cumanayagua Municipality. Cienfuegos, 2020
Abstract
Different studies show that COVID-19 outbreaks constantly occur. The objective of this work is to present the surveillance and control actions in a COVID-19 focus in the municipality of Cumanayagua, Cienfuegos. The index case was a traveler from the United States, who stayed in the community and was related to the first case found in the Municipality: male patient, 67 years old, retired and with no history of concomitant diseases, whose symptoms were cough, five days after contact with said traveler. Twenty-seven contacts were identified, two of them under 15 years of age, all asymptomatic. The other secondary cases were the niece's husband, a 22-year-old male, worker as a Security Agent, with a total of 14 contacts, all asymptomatic, and the daughter-in-law, 38, a housewife, with five contacts, also asymptomatic . All contacts were transferred to an isolation center. The time elapsed between direct contact with the index case and the diagnosis of positivity was between three and five days. Secondary cases, a week were positive. Epidemiological measures were aimed at stopping transmission and preventing contagion.
