Back ground: The first case of COVID 19 in Ethiopia was confirmed on March 13, 2020. Currently the disease is highly spreading into almost all administrative regions of Ethiopia. COVID -19 is not only a health problem but also causes to the socio-economic crisis.
Methods ; community based descriptive study design was conducted in Mizan aman town.Three kebeles were randomly selected from the five kebeles, by proportionally allocating the samples, to each kebeles, from shesheka 134, from Adiss ketema 166, from Kometa ketema,122 samples taken. Households from each kebele were selected by systematic random sampling. First house was selected randomly and every 12th house was selected for the study and one participant from each house was taken for interview by lottery method. Data were collected by using a structured questionnaire adapted from different literatures. Data collectors used interview methods by strictly using masks and keeping physical distances.Questionaire administered data collection was avoided during data collection time to reduce cross contamination. Data was entered in EpiData version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 21 for analysis. Descriptive analysis was done to summarize the frequencies of correct and percentages. Variables whose p-value <0.05 were considered as statistically significant
Result The percentage of the respondents who correctly answered fever, fatigue, dry cough and muscle ache can be one of the symptoms of COVID 19 was 94.9% and 74.8% of the respondents correctly answered that, stuffy nose, runny nose, and sneezing are additional symptoms of corona virus. According to the finding, 64.3% had confidence that Ethiopia can win the battle and the study participants who had optimistic attitude weather they go quarantine if infected was 70.6%. The study result showed that 64.3% visited the crowded place during the interview and 61.1% didn’t wear masks when leaving home, 50.8% of the respondents did not avoid cultural behaviors, such as shaking hands, only 48.4% have been practiced social distancing.