DISSEMINATION OF COVID-19 IN THE TERRESTRIAL AND COASTAL FRONTIER OF BRAZIL

Abstract

Currently Sars-COV-2 is spread over a vast geographical area in the world. The trajectory of the pandemic after crossing the borders of the Brazilian territory (land and coastal), accompanied by an assessment of the measures adopted for its containment and the main conflicts observed and presented in the present study, fulfill the objective of pointing out current and future public policy issues to tackle the pandemic on Brazilian borders. The results of the analyzes carried out demonstrate that the areas with the highest concentration and urban population density were the most affected by virus contamination. However, Covid-19 did not spare smaller municipalities, which is observed by its spread in the territory following the paths of road, river and air mobility in the interior of Brazil. Regarding its reflection in the border area, there is both an inter-federative conflict, with a picture of mismatch between measures of the federal government and subnational units, and the absence of dialogues and agreements with neighboring countries. As suggestions, we point out the creation of instruments, protocols, measures and mechanisms to face the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in land and coastal areas of Brazil.

Keywords

• pandemic
• covid-19
• borderland
• coastal border
• containment measures