ABSTRACT
The objective of the article was to determine the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on access to health services at the first level of care in the Huancavelica region 2020. A basic, explanatory, non-experimental and cross-sectional investigation was carried out. The population consisted of 330,168 (2020) and 301,390 (2019) affiliated with the Comprehensive Health Insurance (SIS), the documentary analysis technique was used, the analysis of variables was carried out using the Pearson correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination and linear regression. The results show that in times of the covid-19 pandemic there was a 24% decrease in access to health services, significance p = 0.000 (p < 0.01), r = 0.98 and r2 = 0.98. The covid-19 pandemic had a negative impact on access to health services at the first level of care in the Huancavelica region.