THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE HEALTH OF THE BLACK POPULATION

Abstract

Covid-19 has recently presented a new scenario of coexistence, with the pandemic, we have developed and resumed basic hygiene and social isolation procedures. In view of the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MS), the Brazilian population must remain in quarantine, except for essential services, and avoid overcrowding. In a scenario of social inequalities, in which the black population is the target of this inequality, in peripheral territory, which faces the high number of family members in the same environment, the lack of basic sanitation, water and sewage, this population being is at the mercy of their own luck, as they are unable to remain at home during the pandemic. The method used was the analysis of data provided by official health agencies. The database used in this study was the Covid-19 Epidemiological Bulletins presented by the Ministry of Health, which show us weekly the evolution of the virus in the world and in Brazil. In relation to demographic data in Brazil, these indicate that the black population (blacks and browns) is mostly victimized by Covid-19.