The WHO announced that COVID-19 should be characterized as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. On 30 January 2020, the Director-General of WHO declared the 2019-nCoV outbreaks a public health emergency of international concern. Confirmed cases outside Wuhan were reported from Thailand (13 January 2020), Japan (16 January 2020), Korea and in another province of China (19 January 2020), all from persons who had travelled to Wuhan. On the next day (12 January 2020), the whole genome sequence of the virus was shared with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the public. On 11 th January 2020, the first fatal case was reported. On 7 January 2020, the a etiological agent of the pneumonia was officially announced as a novel coronavirus. The current human coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, emerged as a public health problem from Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on 31 December 2019 as a cluster of pneumonia cases. Among the coronaviruses that infect humans, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and middle East respiratory syndrome-related Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are highly pathogenic. Coronaviruses belong to the subfamily Coronaviridae, which consists of four genera: Alphacoronavirus and Betacoronavirus members infect mammals, while Gammacoronavirus and Deltacoronavirus only infect birds and some mammals. The diseases vary from mild, self-limiting forms to more severe manifestations depending on the type of viruses involved. Infections with coronaviruses in humans and animals cause respiratory and intestinal diseases. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting information files.įunding: ZD Grant number: VPRTT/PY-403/2020 Addis Ababa University The funders have no role in in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Received: JAccepted: DecemPublished: January 7, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Desalegn et al. PLoS ONE 16(1):Įditor: Khin Thet Wai, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar, MYANMAR (2021) COVID-19 and the public response: Knowledge, attitude and practice of the public in mitigating the pandemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Citation: Desalegn Z, Deyessa N, Teka B, Shiferaw W, Hailemariam D, Addissie A, et al.

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