Table 1.

COVID-19 incidence (per 100,000 population) and case fatality rate (per 100 population) in relation to annual TB incidence (per 100,000 population) and BCG coverage of the country.

Characteristic	Group 1 (low TB incidence, low BCG coverage) N = 38	Group 2 (low TB incidence, high BCG coverage) N = 60	Group 3 (high TB incidence, low BCG coverage) N = 5	Group 4 (high TB incidence, high BCG coverage) N = 71	P-value
COVID-19 incidence (per 100,000)	46.60 (1.36–749.06)	4.30 (0.005–132.51)	0.04 (0.02–17.61)	0.43 (0.01–85.46)	<0.001
COVID-19 case fatality rate (per 100)	1.42 (0–11.7)	1.43 (0–25.0)	0 (0–28.5)	0 (0–33.3)	0.09

Data are represented in terms of median (range).

Data were taken from the World Health Organization website, Global Tuberculosis Report, and https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus.

BCG, Bacille Calmette-Guerin; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; TB, tuberculosis.