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Knowledge, attitude and practice towards COVID-19 among reproductive age women in Debre Tabor Town, Northwest, Ethiopia, 2020. A community based cross sectional study

Bekalu Getnet Kassa, Habtamu Gebrehana Belay, Alemu Degu Ayele, Gedefaye Nibret Mihiretie, Adanech Getie Tefera, Bedemariam Tadesse Amsalu, Fantahun Yenealem Beyene

An emerging respiratory disease was abbreviated as COVID 19, after it has been first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan city of China[1]. The virus causing COVID-19 is a SARS-like coronavirus that had previously been reported in bats in China[2]. The virus is a zoonotic which has a tendency to be transmitted between animal to human and human to human. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus “2019-nCoV” outbreak as a global public health emergency, the sixth time in history[3]. Corona viruses are enveloped non-segmented positive sense RNA viruses belonging to the family Corona viridae and the order Nido virales and broadly distributed in humans and other mammals.