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) .