THE TERRITORY AND HEALTH OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF SANTANA DO MUNDAÚ/AL IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19
COVID-19; Globalization; Health; Territory.
The geographic context of Covid-19, an acute respiratory infection disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-COV-2, was analyzed based on the territory and health of the municipality of Santana do Mundaú located in the state of Alagoas/Brazil. The methodology consisted of carrying out mappings, photographic records and applying forms to municipal public servants in the health area, with the aim of understanding the impacts of transmissibility in the municipality. The contagion of Covid-19 can be explained by the organization of the population in the territory and the spatial distance between households in urban and rural areas. However, the effects of globalization have made it possible to understand the rapid process of disease transmission in different territories around the world. Thus, the pandemic placed everyone under the same risk roof and consequently led to global action (technical and scientific), as both the number of fatal victims of covid-19, and the discovery of the vaccine, show how countries and their states connect to the world system. In Brazil, the Unified Health System (SUS) was not prepared to support the number of cases, therefore, the Covid-19 pandemic, due to the possibilities of globalization, was present in the location (municipality) in two ways, through the contagion of virus and the use of the immunizer.