Table 2.
Public knowledge regarding the nature and symptoms of the novel coronavirus.
| Questions | Yes |
No |
I do not know |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. | % | N. | % | N. | % | |
| Q1. Did the coronavirus initially spread in China? | 550 | 91.7 | 8 | 1.3 | 42 | 7 |
| Q2. Is coronavirus contagious? | 593 | 98.8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Q3. Are symptoms of the disease similar to those of seasonal flu? | 538 | 89.7 | 40 | 6.7 | 22 | 3.7 |
| Q4. Can the virus infect a person more than once? | 441 | 73.5 | 40 | 6.7 | 119 | 19.8 |
| Q5. Children cannot be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. | 93 | 15.5 | 412 | 68.7 | 95 | 15.8 |
| Q6. Does coronavirus infect the respiratory system? | 568 | 94.7 | 4 | 0.7 | 28 | 4.7 |
| Q7. Is the risk of infection with the coronavirus high? | 518 | 86.3 | 48 | 8 | 34 | 5.7 |
| Q8. Is diarrhoea a symptom of infection with the coronavirus? | 302 | 50.3 | 169 | 28.2 | 129 | 21.5 |
| Q9. Is sneezing a symptom of the coronavirus? | 392 | 65.3 | 141 | 23.5 | 67 | 11.2 |
| Q10. Are elderly people and those with chronic diseases more likely to contract coronavirus? | 540 | 90 | 32 | 5.3 | 28 | 4.7 |
| Q11. Is coughing one of the symptoms of infection with the coronavirus? | 508 | 84.5 | 42 | 7 | 51 | 8.5 |
| Q12. Is high temperature one of the symptoms of infection with the coronavirus? | 587 | 97.8 | 4 | 0.7 | 9 | 1.5 |