3.2 Public’s knowledge of COVID-19 virus nature and origin
Most participants (57.1%) believed that COVID-19 is a naturally occurring human virus, while others (38.7%) believed it has a bacterial origin. A considerable number (43.5%) believed it to be a laboratory-created virus or a punishment from God (50 %). The detail can be seen in Table (2) .
3.3 Public’s knowledge of COVID-19 disease susceptibility, self-protection measures, and antibiotics and antimalarial use
The majority of the participants opinioned that the COVID-19 virus could infect any group of the population. However, the elder (20.4%) and co-morbidities population (13.3%) were more susceptible to COVID-19. Most of the participants (91.3%) confirmed using self-protection measures for protection against the COVID-19 pandemic, and most (66.7%) believed that antibiotics and antimalarials (chloroquine) are effective in protection against the COVID-19 pandemic, as shown in Table (3) .