Covid-19 early geographical spread and aeromobility in Brazil

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the Covid-19 geographical spread in Brazil, supporting future pandemic contention public policies. This article was divided into three parts: First, we organized data from the epidemiological reports from Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador, since the beginning of their publishing to Apr.20, 2020, then we plotted them into maps and analyzed taking into account their respective national disease control policies, also comparing with China and Singapore. After that, in a national scale, we analyzed the data, by County, from Feb.02, 2020, to Aug.03, 2020, comparing them with the dominant air-passenger flux (IBGE, 2013). In the third part, we approached the relationship between the aeromobility and the liquid modernity. We conclude that an emergency disease control protocol must have, as one of its first actions, the interdiction of airports, mainly those of São Paulo, to either national and international flights, in order to slowdown the disease spread network.

Keywords: Covid-19; Geographical spread; Public policies; Transport network; Aeromobility