Table 5.

Age and sex characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 positive cases among tested over three testing periods.

	Period 1 (P1) 06/04/20 to 17/05/20		Period 2 (P2) 18/05/20 to 03/09/20		Period 3 (P3) ≥04/09/20 to 31/12/20
	n/n (%)	OR (95% CI); p-value	n/n (%)	OR (95% CI); p-value	n/n (%)	OR (95% CI); p-value
age
≤5 years	24/359 (6.7)	1.0	106/1315 (8.1)	1.0	23/1174 (2.0)	1.0
6–19 years	208/1995 (10.4)	1.62 (1.05–2.51); 0.030	639/7501 (8.5)	1.06 (0.85–1.32); 0.582	230/7883 (2.9)	1.50 (0.97–2.31); 0.065
20–59 years	1079 (7.8)	1.17 (0.77–1.78); 0.444	4664/50 580 (9.2)	1.15 (0.94–1.41); 0.151	1709/32 494 (5.3)	2.78 (1.83–4.21); <0.001
≥60 years	109/1187 (9.2)	1.41 (0.89–2.23); 0.141	505/4028 (12.5)	1.63 (1.31–2.03); <0.001	219/3211 (6.8)	3.66 (2.37–5.66); <0.001
gender
female	416/4440 (9.4)	1.0	1941/20 378 (9.5)	1.0	726/17 961 (4.0)	1.0
male	1004/12 974 (7.7)	0.81 (0.72–0.91); 0.001	3973/43 046 (9.2)	0.96 (0.91–1.02); 0.232	1455/26 795 (5.4)	1.36 (1.24–1.50); <0.001