The Escalating Magnitude of COVID-19 Infections among the Northeastern Ethiopia Region: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Table 4

COVID-19 infections and associated factors among study participants in the northeastern region of Ethiopia, 2020.

	Positive	Negative	COR (95% CI)	value	AOR (95% CI)	value
Sex
Female	97 (3.0)	3087 (97.0)	1.00		1.00
Male	194 (3.5)	5374 (96.5)	1.15 (0.9–1.47)	0.272	1.17 (0.91–1.50)	0.230
Age, years
1–35	27 (2.7)	965 (97.3)	1.00		1.00
36–52	174 (3.3)	5062 (96.7)	0.14 (0.03–0.64)	0.012	1.02 (0.76–1.38)	0.871
53–69	60 (3.2)	1820 (96.8)	0.13 (0.03–0.63)	0.011	1.19 (0.75–1.87)	0.466
70–86	22 (3.8)	563 (96.2)	0.16 (0.03–0.78)	0.024	1.15 (0.49–2.67)	0.749
87–104	8 (5.0)	151 (95)	0.17 (0.03–0.97)	0.046	6.03 (1.19–30.4)	0.030
Permanent residence by zone
Dessie town	52 (4.4)	1123 (95.6)	1.00		1.00
South Wollo	112 (2.4)	4460 (97.6)	0.54 (0.39–0.76)	<0.005	0.56 (0.39–0.79)	0.001
Special zone of Oromia	92 (4.9)	1801 (95.1)	1.10 (0.779–1.56)	0.580	0.98 (0.68–1.41)	0.92
Wag Hemra	24 (2.4)	956 (97.6)	0.54 (0.33–0.87)	0.015	0.59 (0.36–0.99)	0.044
Others	11 (8.3)	121 (91.7)	1.96 (0.998–3.86)	0.051	2.03 (1.03–3.99)	0.041
Classification of study subjects for COVID-19 screening
New	256 (3.0)	8310 (97.0)	7.52 (5.1–11.1)	<0.005	7.63 (5.07–11.5)	<0.005
Follow-up	35 (18.8)	151 (81.2)	1.00		1.00
Reason for testing
Community surveillance	189 (2.7)	6808 (97.3)	1.00		1.00
Suspect	17 (3.9)	919 (96.1)	1.45 (1.01–2.08)	0.042	1.38 (0.33–5.7)	0.657
Contact	28 (5.1)	516 (94.9)	1.96 (1.3–2.94)	0.001	1.65 (1.09–2.51)	0.018
Facility-based survey	2 (2.9)	67 (97.1)	1.07 (0.26–4.42)	0.920
Follow-up	35 (18.8)	151 (81.2)	8.35 (5.62–12.4)	<0.005	1.32 (0.91–1.90)	0.145