ABSTRACT

This article discusses the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, taking about the factors related to the urban network. Its main objective is to analyze the implications of the properties of the urban network of the State of Pará, especially in relation to the condition and disposition of health services, in the dynamics of COVID-19 in the territory of Pará. Using bibliographic and documentary surveys, it was found that the dissemination of the pathology has obeyed the logic of the urban network, first reaching its upper strata and then reaching the local centers, being enhanced by the inequalities and precariousness characteristic of the cities of Pará. Thus, the cities with greatest expression in urban network has presented high numbers of infection’s cases and deaths, but also have health infrastructure most significant if compared to those available into the cities with bottom layer of urban network, which, when considered together, turn up strongly affected by pandemic, however in minimal conditions to answer to the advance of pathology, once lay down of health services extremely scant and precarious. The solutions found is the displacement to the large centers, which overload these services and, consequently, expose as unequal distribution of urban network healthy service as its precariousness.

Keywords:
urban network; precariousness; inequality; COVID-19; State of Pará