A Study to Assess the Awareness on Covid Appropriate Behaviour Among General Public Visiting a Selected Hospital in Bengaluru

ABSTRACT

The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is a contagious disease caused by SARS-COV-2 that was fi rst identifi ed in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared its outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. WHO announced Covid-19 as the new disease on 11 February 2020. According to World Health statistics as in November 2021, around 24.9 crore new cases, and 50.3 lakh deaths were reported. The global number of new cases reported seems to be plateauing after increasing for nearly two months since mid-June 2021.