A novel coronavirus disease later known as COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, caused the most distressing instants in the life of all the people of the world, which is still emerging causing many unavoidable health hazards. The best way to prevent illness from corona virus is to avoid being exposed to the virus. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Older people and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. This is a perfect time to conduct a survey for assessing knowledge, attitude and anxiety of general population because corona virus has affected everyone’s life pattern; every person is facing a lot of problems in their life because of COVID-19. Objectives: This study aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitude and anxiety towards covid 19 among general population prevent the spread of COVID-19 by taking precaution or using preventive measures. Methodology: The research design was Survey descriptive research design and convenient sampling technique was used to select samples who met the inclusion criteria. The data was collected by using interview technique and analysis was done using descriptive statistics. Results: From the data analysis, the main findings of the study are 91.7% had good knowledge and 8.3% had excellent knowledge regarding COVID-19. In regard to attitude of general population towards covid 19 majority of the population 55% has a positive attitude towards hand washing, quarantine yourself if you are having fever and cough, social distancing, that COVID-19 lockdown etc. is essential to stop the virus spread can reduce the risk of infection. And in regard to anxiety 45% of general population had moderate anxiety, 43.4% of general population has mild anxiety and 5% had severe anxiety.
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