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Introductions: To meet immunization goals, two things must happen: effective vaccines must be delivered through a well-controlled cold chain environment, and maximum utilization must be accomplished. In both developed and developing countries, there is a lack of knowledge about cold chain management. Maintaining vaccine effectiveness is currently one of the most challenging problems facing African immunization initiatives, particularly Ethiopia. But there is very less data related to cold chain management in this part of the world done before. Methods and materials: An institution based cross sectional study was been conducted. A total of 502 participants those that serve in federal health care facilities in, West Guji zone, Oromia, Southern Ethiopia were included. A semi-structured questioner was used to process the results. Epi Info was used to enter and clean data and the files were exported to SPSS. Using a logistic regression model with a 0.05 degree of significance, the adjusted odds ratio with its 95 percent confidence interval was incorporated to recognize the relationship and classify related variables. Conclusion: In previous studies in Ethiopia, health professional’s awareness of cold chain management remained limited. Knowing the available Knowledge among health workers in vaccination centers in and around West Guji zone is critical, particularly in this pandemic where a COVID-19 Vaccine is urgently needed. This study is being conducted to identify this region of the world’s preparedness for managing the possible vaccine that will be available in the coming days. © 2021, Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad. All rights reserved.
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Background:COVID-19 has been a cause of worldwide alarm and a pandemicas The World Health Organization announced the outbreaks.Education is important, but Covid-19 made it too difficult. Only teachers can protect students by adhering to guidelines in order to ensure a safe and secure educational environment.This study was to assess the knowledge on prevention response and preparedness of Covid-19 among teachers of Bule Hora University, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. To have a safe environment for the students to have quality education by following all the guidelines. Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted in Bule Hora Universityon academic staff.Simple random sampling technique was employed to select 421 teachers as study participants from various colleges. The data were collected by using a pretested structured self administered questionnaire. The collected data were exported to statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 25.0 for analysis. Results: The majority of the respondents (52.7%) were post graduated teachers. The overall prevention knowledge prevention response and preparedness 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‟ (70.3) were the main sourceof the information. About 73.9% of the respondents have good knowledge on prevention of Covid-19. 84.3% of the respondents have good knowledge on preparedness of Covid-19.Out of 421 participants,73.9% and 84.3% % of the participants were having good knowledge which gave hope to the university to reopen and have safe education by following all preventive protocols to prevent students from acquiring covid-19. Conclusions: Majority of the participants had knew the ways of protecting themselves from the Covid-19. But, there was deficiencies of changing these prevention knowledge to practice. Faculty development programs and providing adequate resources can help the teachers to follow the protocols. © 2021, Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad. All rights reserved.