RELATION OF THE COVID-19 COUNTRY RISK INDEX TO THE ACTUAL IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC

COVID-19 spread rapidly and put all nations at risk. The objective of the study was to demonstrate whether there is a relationship between INFORM's COVID-19 Risk Index by country and the actual impact of the pandemic. It was a relational, analytical, observational, cross-sectional, and retrospective study, developed in 184 countries. Spearman's correlation coefficient was used to test the hypothesis related to the proposed objective. The highest risk was concentrated in Africa and the countries with more deaths per million inhabitants were European. It was concluded that there is a correlation between the INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index by country and COVID-19 deaths per million inhabitants, with a negative value (-0.540).