Background: The Novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is now the international concerns and a pandemic, since the World Health Organization declared as the outbreaks. The objective of this study to assess the prevention knowledge and practices towards the COVID-19 among the residents of Ethiopia. Methods: An online cross-sectional study was conducted among the sample of Ethiopian residents via social platforms of the author’s network with the popular media such as Facebook, in Ethiopia from the April 15-22, 2020 and successfully recruited 341 responses. The snowball sampling was employed to recruit the participants. The data were analyzed using STATA version 14. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the level of knowledge and practices. Results: The majority of the respondents (80.35%) were male. The overall prevention knowledge of the participants towards the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was high. About 91.2% of the participant was heard about the novel coronavirus disease and Social Medias’ were the main source of the information. About 90% of the participants had a good prevention knowledge of maintaining social distance and frequent hand washing. The practices of the participants towards the COVID-19 prevention were very low. Out of 341 participants, only 61% and 84% of the participants were practicing social distance and frequent hand washing, respectively. Conclusions: Majority of the participants had knew the ways of protecting themselves from the novel coronavirus. But, there was deficiencies of changing these prevention knowledge to practice. This indicates that there was gap between knowledge and implementation of prevention strategies in the community. The concerned body should focus on providing education for the community regarding the implementation of the prevention knowledge to practice.

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埃塞俄比亚居民中预防COVID-19大流行的知识和实践。在线横截面研究。

背景：自从世界卫生组织宣布爆发以来，《 2019年新型冠状病毒疾病》（COVID-19）现在是国际关注的大流行病。这项研究的目的是评估埃塞俄比亚居民对COVID-19的预防知识和实践。方法：从2020年4月15日至22日在埃塞俄比亚，通过作者网络的社交平台与流行媒体（例如Facebook）在埃塞俄比亚居民样本中进行了在线横断面研究，并成功招募了341个回复。雪球采样被用来招募参与者。使用STATA 14版对数据进行了分析。描述性统计用于总结知识和实践水平。结果：大多数受访者（80.35％）是男性。参与者对新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）的总体预防知识很高。大约91.2％的参与者听说过新型冠状病毒疾病，而社交媒体是信息的主要来源。大约90％的参与者具有良好的预防知识，可以保持社交距离和经常洗手。参加者对COVID-19预防的做法非常低。在341名参与者中，分别只有61％和84％的参与者在练习社交距离和频繁洗手。结论：大多数参与者已经知道保护自己免受新型冠状病毒感染的方法。但是，将这些预防知识应用于实践仍存在缺陷。这表明社区的知识与预防策略的实施之间存在差距。有关机构应着重于为社区提供有关实施预防知识的教育。