El virus del SARS COV 2, causante de la enfermedad Covid 19, se transmite de forma directa e indirecta; por lo que, basados en esta forma de transmisión, a nivel epidemiológico se definió al contacto directo, con lo que se identificó a la población asintomática con riesgo potencial de presentar la infección. Esta definición, laboralmente está asociada a la ausentabilidad en empresas públicas y privadas. Considerando que la realidad de los distintos rubros laborales es diferente, el determinar una mayor o menor frecuencia de antecedente de contacto extralaboral de Covid 19, contribuirá a implementar o reforzar medidas enfocadas en la prevención. Por tal motivo, con el objetivo de encontrar la frecuencia del antecedente extralaboral del contacto de Covid; así como, la descripción de variables sociodemográficas, el presente estudio será observacional descriptivo, prospectivo...

Objective: To describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of workers kept under occupational medical surveillance conducted by an occupational safety and health service. Materials and methods: An observational, descriptive, retrospective, longitudinal study of a group of workers diagnosed with COVID-19 kept under occupational medical surveillance from March 18 to July 31, 2020. The data was analyzed using the Stata Statistical Software: Release 15. Results: Males were more severely affected than females (77.16 %), among which the 20- to 39-year-old age group prevailed (63.30 %). On the other hand, study subjects with no comorbidities accounted for 81.11 %. However, the remaining 18.9 % presented one or more comorbidities, with obesity being the most frequent one (61.95 %), followed by asthma (11.09 %). Sore throat and cough were the most common symptoms with 20.67 % and 19....