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Correlational Analysis of COVID-19 Deaths and Recoveries per Country

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 Correlational Analysis of COVID-19 Deaths and
Recoveries per Country

Erl Jay Montalban1, Richard Canja2, Razer Caluban3, Mark Van Buladaco4
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Student, Bachelor of Science in Information Systems, Davao del Norte State College
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Insctructor, Institute of Information Technology, Davao del Norte State College, markvan.buladaco@dnsc.edu.ph

ABSTRACT the new coronavirus, which causes COVID-19

disease. Millions of people are infected, and
A pandemic crisis is now happening in the several countries are affected.
world because of the new coronavirus, which
causes COVID-19 disease. Millions of people are The outbreak of the coronavirus disease
infected, and several countries are affected. This (COVID19) had scattered in every continent, and
paper inquires the relationship between COVID- almost many people had died after contracting the
19 deaths and recoveries in each country. The respiratory virus, these deaths occurred in every
outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) country. There were over 3.8 million global cases
had scattered in every continent, and almost many of COVID-19 as of May 8, 2020, and over 1.3
people had died after contracting the respiratory million people had recovered from the disease,
virus, these deaths occurred in every country. The while there had been 265,800 deaths. And several
data was acquired from Worldmeter, and data is countries hit by the pandemic [3].
until May 8, 2020. The result shows that there is
a strong relationship between the two variables The main purpose of this paper is to determine
with r=0.766. Moreover, there is a significant the significant relationship between Total Deaths
relationship between deaths and recoveries per per Country and Total Recoveries per Country.
country for the COVID-19 disease with a p-value
of 0.000 (Correlation is significant at the 0.01
level 2-tailed). Conceptual Framework

Keywords: Correlational Research, Pandemic,

COVID-19, Deaths, Recoveries

1. INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of the study
The World Health Organization (WHO)
describes the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-
19) as a transmittable disease produced by a Research Questions
newly revealed coronavirus [1]. There are two
continuous variables in this Correlational The main research question for this paper is to
Analysis: Total Deaths per Country and Total determine the significant relationship between the
Recoveries per Country. The data of the chosen number of deaths per country and the number of
variables are founded from Worldometer’s recoveries per country.
COVID-19 per country data [2]. A pandemic
crisis is now happening in the world because of
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Null Hypothesis

Ho1: There is no significant relationship between

the number of deaths per country and the number
of recoveries per country.

2. METHODOLOGY
This paper utilizes a correlational quantitative
research design. This will test the correlation
coefficient to determine a relationship between
two variables. Pearson r was used to analyze the
data and to determine the correlation. SPSS
software was used for the analysis and results. The
data was acquired from Worldmeter, and data is
until May 8, 2020 [2]. There 212 countries
selected in this correlational analysis.

3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

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 Fig 2. Data of Countries Deaths and
Recoveries from Worldmeter

The figure above indicates the data of the

deaths and recoveries per country. This data was
acquired from Worldmeter as of May 8, 2020.
There were three columns in the above table – the
table one shows the data of the countries in the
world, the second columns illustrate the deaths
per country, and the last column indicates the
recoveries per country. The above data specifies
that as recoveries increase, the deaths also
increase, but there are also countries where they
have recoveries, but they were no deaths. There
are also four countries that have no recoveries and
deaths.

Table 1. Correlation Result of Deaths and

Recoveries per Country
Correlations

Deaths Recoveries

Deaths Pearson Correlation 1 .766**

Sig. (2-tailed) .000

N 175 174
Recoveries Pearson Correlation .766** 1

Sig. (2-tailed) .000

N 174 207

**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

The table above describes the relationship of

COVID 19 deaths and recoveries per day, with
this Pearson Correlation is used to identify the
relationship between the two variables. Statistics
Solutions described the Pearson r as the most
widely used correlations statistic to measure the
degree of the relationship between linearly related
variables [4].
In addition, the above printouts indicate that
the strength of association between the two
continuous variables is moderately strong
(r=0.766) and that the correlation coefficient is
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 very highly significantly different from zero The outbreak of COVID-19 has produced a
(P<0.001) which it rejects the null hypothesis worldwide health crisis that had a strong effect on
(ρ=0) and accepts the alternative hypothesis the way people perceive the world and everyday
(ρ≠0), this means that there is a significant linear lives. Deaths increase per country because of the
relationship between the two variables. The said invisible and deadly enemy; this becomes the
researchers identify that if the one continuous reason why many people have the fear and why
variable like deaths per county increases, the other many people suffer. But recoveries also increases
variable like recoveries per country also as deaths increases, that's why there are also many
increases. people who are fighting and hopeful that this
The study of Asyary and Veruswati [5] crisis has an ending and there's a solution for
resulted that the cases of COVID-19 in Jakarta every difficulty.
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