COVID-19 pandemic impacted countries all over the world calling as urgent need to enhance the capacity of individuals and communities to respond in such disease outbreaks. Public health interventions, such as social distancing could help to protect many vulnerable people and reduce secondary transmissions within the community. This research was undertaken as a longitudinal study to identify and comprehend the preferences given to different preventive measures adopted by individuals to ensure protection against the spread of coronavirus. An online survey was conducted with a representative sample of 176 stakeholders to identify practices and behaviour adopted by the key stakeholders working in the domains of water, health and disaster risk reduction to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Delhi-National Capital Territory of India (Delhi-NCT). Findings of this study shown preferred willingness to adopt sanitisation measures, often by cleaning their hands with soap and water, and restricting any movement inside and outside of the house. Three-fourth of the respondents considered washing their hands after returning from outside an important measure to limit the spread of the disease. Moreover, two-third of the people stopped ordering food from outside as a prevention strategy. Furthermore, only about 36% of the respondents showed interest in stocking up on grocery items as their most preferred choice, reflecting that this was considered to be the least important of all choices. Research outcomes of this study will help policymakers to better understand mitigation options that are used in the early and later stages of the lockdown to improve resilience from such viruses. Further, it will assist decision-makers to understand the range of individual-level practices adopted by stakeholders to mitigate disease transmission at the community level and inform the government's planning efforts in the future.

COVID-19 大流行影响了世界各国，迫切需要提高个人和社区应对此类疾病爆发的能力。保持社交距离等公共卫生干预措施有助于保护许多弱势群体并减少社区内的二次传播。这项研究是作为一项纵向研究进行的，旨在确定和理解个人为确保防止冠状病毒传播而采取的不同预防措施的偏好。对 176 个利益相关者的代表性样本进行了在线调查，以确定在水、健康和减少灾害风险领域工作的主要利益相关者为遏制 COVID-19 在印度德里国家首都辖区的传播而采取的做法和行为（德里-NCT）。这项研究的结果表明，他们更愿意采取卫生措施，通常是用肥皂和水洗手，并限制房屋内外的任何活动。四分之三的受访者认为从外面回来后洗手是限制疾病传播的重要措施。此外，作为预防策略，三分之二的人停止从外面订购食物。此外，只有约 36% 的受访者表示有兴趣将购买杂货作为他们的首选，这反映出这被认为是所有选择中最不重要的。这项研究的研究成果将帮助政策制定者更好地了解在封锁的早期和后期阶段使用的缓解方案，以提高对此类病毒的抵御能力。进一步，