Department of Personalized and Molecular Medicine, Era University, Lucknow, UP, India

Methods: Total 326 COVID-19 subjects including 259 cases with high socioeconomic status and 67 cases with low socioeconomic status were enrolled in the study. Using data from August 16 to September 26, 2020, from Era University, Lucknow. We evaluated the frequency and intensity of COVID-19 cases and contrasted urban and rural areas based on their socioeconomic status.

Results: In this study, we have observed that in rural population with high socioeconomic status mild and severe cases were 43% and 57%, respectively, while in rural population with low socioeconomic status, mild and severe cases were 86% and 14%, respectively. We have also found that in urban population with high socioeconomic status, mild and severe cases were 79% and 21%, respectively, while in urban population with low socioeconomic status mild and severe cases were 81% and 19%, respectively. On comparing the severity of COVID-19 among urban and rural population with different socioeconomic status. We have observed that urban population with high socioeconomic status were having significantly higher severity rate compare to rural population (p=0.00194, 0.567). On comparing socioeconomic status with the severity of COVID-19 among urban and rural population we have observed in rural population mild cases were significantly higher in low socioeconomic status, whereas severe cases were significantly higher in high socioeconomic status (p=0.027).

Conclusions: In India, the high socioeconomic status of both urban and rural populations was closely linked to the severity of COVID-19.