Preventive Practice and Associated Factors Toward Coronavirus Disease 19 in Adigrat Town, Northern Ethiopia: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Fre Gebremeskel III1 Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Science, Adigrat University, Adigrat, EthiopiaCorrespondence[email protected]

Embeba Teklay2 School of Public Health, College of Health sciences, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia

Menaseb Gebrehaweria1 Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Science, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia

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