Preventive behaviors of covid-19 and associated factors among health professionals at public hospitals in Dire Dawa administration and Harar, Eastern Ethiopia

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the outbreak of a new corona virus disease, COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern in January and considered it as a pandemic in March 2020. WHO reported on July, 2020 over 10% of COVID-19 infection accounted by health care workers globally. However, little is known about the level of health workers’ preventive behaviors though they are front liners in the outbreak response.