days between the first global and domestic cases number of case growing weeks‡ percentage of case growing weeks‡
  Favorable
(n = 72)
Unfavorable
(n = 100)
P-value† Favorable
(n =100)
Unfavorable
(n =74)
P-value† Strong
(n =92)
Weak
(n =77)
P-value†
HDI                  
Very High 12 (13.5%) 41 (60.3%) <0.01*** 25 (28.7%) 28 (38.9%) 0.02** 35 (42.7%) 17 (23.0%) 0.061*
High 26 (29.2%) 14 (20.6%)   20 (23.0%) 21 (29.2%)   18 (22.0%) 22 (29.7%)  
Medium 22 (24.7%) 10 (14.7%)   16 (18.4%) 16 (22.2%)   13 (15.9%) 19 (25.7%)  
low 29 (32.6%) 3 (3.3%)   26 (29.9%) 7 (9.7%)   16 (19.5%) 16 (21.6%)  
International travel volume                  
High 33 (46.5%) 63 (95.5%) <0.01*** 43 (53.8%) 53 (91.4%) <0.01*** 49 (64.5%) 45 (77.6%) 0.10*
Low 38 (53.5%) 3 (4.5%)   37 (46.3%) 5 (8.6%)   27 (35.5%) 13 (22.4%)  
Health workforce density                  
High 27 (32.9%) 47 (71.2%) <0.01*** 39 (47.6%) 36 (52.9%) 0.512 47 (61.8%) 27 (38.0%) <0.01***
Low 55 (67.1%) 19 (28.8%)   43 (52.4%) 32 (47.1%)   29 (38.2%) 44 (62.0%)  
Health expenditure                  
High 38 (43.7%) 37 (53.6%) 0.217 46 (53.5%) 30 (41.7%) 0.139 47 (57.3%) 27 (37.0%) 0.011**
Low 49 (56.3%) 32 (46.4%)   40 (46.5%) 42 (58.3%)   35 (42.7%) 46 (63.0%)  
SPAR scores (2019)                  
7 core capacity average scores                  
High 13 (15.5%) 38 (61.3%) <0.01*** 20 (25.3%) 31 (45.6%) <0.01*** 27 (37.0%) 24 (33.3%) 0.826
Medium 33 (39.3%) 14 (22.6%)   24 (30.4%) 24 (35.3%)   22 (30.1%) 25 (34.7%)  
Low 38 (45.2%) 10 (16.1%)   35 (44.3%) 13 (19.1%)   24 (32.9%) 23 (31.9%)  
7 core capacity plus POE average scores                  
High 13 (15.9%) 37 (59.7%) <0.01*** 21 (26.6%) 29 (43.9%) <0.01*** 29 (39.7%) 21 (30.0%) 0.417
Medium 32 (39.0%) 15 (24.2%)   24 (30.4%) 24 (36.4%)   21 (28.8%) 26 (37.1%)  
Low 37 (45.1%) 10 (16.1%)   34 (43.0%) 13 (19.7%)   23 (31.5%) 23 (32.9%)  
Health service provision                  
High 33 (39.3%) 48 (77.4%) <0.01*** 40 (50.6%) 42 (61.8%) 0.175 48 (65.8%) 33 (45.8%) 0.016**
Low 51 (60.7%) 14 (22.6%)   39 (49.4%) 26 (38.2%)   25 (34.2%) 39 (54.2%)