• Danielli Oliveira da Costa Lino, Renato Barreto, Francisco Daniel de Souza, Carlos José Mota de Lima, and Silva JuniorGeraldo Bezerra daGBDUniversidade de Fortaleza, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. Electronic address: geraldobezerrajr@unifor.br..
• Secretaria de Estado da Saúde do Ceará, Hospital do Coração de Messejana - Dr. Carlos Alberto Studart Gomes, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil; Universidade de Fortaleza, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
• Braz J Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 1; 24 (5): 466-469.

AbstractCoronaviruses are known to be responsible for infections in humans since the 1960s and have accounted for epidemics in recent human history. More recently, in 2019, a disease caused by a new coronavirus appeared in China, in the province of Wuhan, with a characteristic of greater infectivity, called COVID-19, which has caused a new world pandemic. Considering the need to contain the advance in the number of cases, based on the high rate of transmissibility, several countries have adopted extreme social distancing measures, including the so-called 'lockdown'. Despite the socioeconomic side effects, the aforementioned measure reduced the progression of the pandemic in countries that adopted it. In Brazil, the state of Ceará was one of the first epicenters of the disease in the country and the state capital city of Fortaleza, on May 8, implemented the lockdown measure to contain the increase in the number of cases. It was then observed, in a tertiary hospital, which is a referral for COVID-19 cases, a decrease in the daily occupancy rate of beds reserved for the pandemic after the lockdown onset, evidencing that this measure leads to a sustainable reduction in bed occupation rates, thus preventing the collapse and overload in health services.Copyright © 2020 Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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