Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of COVID-19 Prevention among Adults 18 Years and Above in Kintampo North Municipality, Ghana

Kabiri Mukasa,Puplampu Paapa,Adusei Kwabena Opoku,Poku Samuel Adusi,Ofori Emmanuel Kwaku,Baffoe Augustine

doi:10.23937/2474-3658/1510228

Abstract

Novel coronavirus disease is a very infectious respiratory infection transmitted from person-to-person and manifest commonly with fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing, fatigue, myalgia and dyspnea. The World Health Organization (WHO) used the term 2019 novel coronavirus to refer to a coronavirus that affected the lower respiratory tract of patients with pneumonia in Wuhan, China on 29 December 2019. Persons with comorbidities and the aged are most vulnerable to severe disease and accounted for over 40% of deaths globally.

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Novel coronavirus disease is a very infectious respiratory infection transmitted from person-to-person and manifest commonly with fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing, fatigue, myalgia and dyspnea
There is high level of awareness about COVID-19 in the public mostly through the media but most of the people do not adhere to the preventive measures to prevent themselves from infection
Intensified education and enforcement of the preventive measures will be required to interrupt the chain of transmission since the level of awareness seems not to translate to actual practice of preventing infection

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Novel coronavirus disease is a very infectious respiratory infection transmitted from person-to-person and manifest commonly with fever, dry cough, difficulty breathing, fatigue, myalgia and dyspnea. They often results in a very infectious respiratory disease which is transmitted from person-to-person and manifest most often with fever, dry cough, difficulty in breathing, fatigue, myalgia and dyspnea [1]. There are several coronaviruses known to be circulating in different animal populations that have not yet infected humans. Novel coronavirus disease 19 is the most recent to make the jump to human infection. The coronavirus disease 19 infection is spread from one person to others via droplets produced from the respiratory system of infected people, often during coughing or sneezing

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