Abstract            Volume:9  Issue-7  Year-2021         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Covid-19 is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. The world first learned of this new virus in December 2019, following a report of a cluster of cases of ‘viral pneumonia in Wuhan, the People’s Republic of China. Until the middle of July 2021, the number of people infected with Covid-19 worldwide is around 189 million, about four million deaths, and 172 million recovered. This study objective was to analyze the characteristic of a covid-19 infected patient in Lhoksumawe city, Aceh province, Indonesia, on 2020-2021. This study was observational with cross sectional. The study was conducted in Lhosumawe city, one of 23 cities/districts in Aceh Province, Indonesia.The population of this study was all the people who infected covid-19 in Lhoksumawe city from 2020 to the middle of July 2021 (850 patients), and the sample is the total population and variables in this study were age group and sex. The Result showed that almost 55,5% or 472 patients were male, and 45,5% were female. In the age group variable, most patients aged 20-39 years, 46,1 % or 391 patients. Conclusion: male and people aged 20-39 were the main characteristic of Covid-19 infected patients in Lhoksumawe city, Indonesia.

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