Awareness, Attitude & Knowledge of COVID-19 amongst North Indian Population: Mirror of an Outburst Scenario

Context: In the current era, the evolving pathogen, CoVs was originated anonymously in a patient suffering from pneumonia in Wuhan in December 2019 has drawn implausible care around the world. Aim: Its aim was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and degree of awareness among the North India population of different ages towards COVID-19 through a well-formatted questionnaire. Methods and Materials: A cross-sectional study of 384 participants enlisted from various places was conducted through an effective and dependable questionnaire including socio demographic and COVID-19 knowledge data in the population of Northern India. Statistical Analysis Used: ONE-WAY ANOVA test was used to illustrate statistical differences and result came as significant at (p<0.05). Result: Maximum participants were males (52%) of age 40-59 years (39%); secondary passed (12%) and people working in a private sector (12%). Conclusion: Due to collaboration of all the sources as social media, television, newspaper and health related advertisement public was having good knowledge about COVID-19.