Impact of good governance, economic growth and universal health coverage on COVID-19 infection and case fatality rates in Africa

Table 2 Multivariable linear regression analysis on predictors of COVID-19 infection rate and predictor variables among African countries

Variables	Coefficient	SE	t-value	P-value	[95% CI]		Significance
UHC SCI components: infectious diseases	0.025	0.01	2.50	0.016	0.005	0.045	**
Government effectiveness	0.017	0.264	0.06	0.949	−0.515	0.549	NS
Per capita GDP (current USD) 2019	0.514	0.177	2.91	0.006	0.158	0.87	***
COVID-19 government response stringency index	0.038	0.019	2.05	0.046	0.001	0.076	**
Prevalence of obesity among adults, BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²	0.017	0.022	0.76	0.453	−0.027	0.06	NS
Ambient and household air pollution-attributable death rate (per 100 000 population)	0.004	0.008	0.49	0.628	−0.012	0.02	NS
Mean dependent variable	5.580	SD dependent variable	1.611
R-squared	0.610	No. observations	54
F-test	12.187	Prob > F	0.000
AIC	166.905	BIC	180.828

AIC Akaike information criterion, BIC Bayesian information criterion, BMI body mass index, CI confidence interval, GDP gross domestic product, NS not significant, SCI UHC index of service coverage, SE standard error
***P < 0.01, **P < 0.05, *P < 0.1
***, ** and * respectively refers 1%, 5% and 10% level of confidence interval

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