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Covid-19 outbreak has been a great public health challenge to the world where government in various countries has made drastic effort to mitigate the outbreak of the pandemic “COVID-19” by imposing lockdown, movement control. Adherence to control measure is affected by their knowledge, attitude and willingness towards covid-19 preventive measure. In this study, to assess the knowledge, attitude and willingness towards covid-19 preventive measure among the healthcare workers in a tertiary health institution in North Eastern part of Nigeria. Method: A descriptive cross sectional survey was performed in a tertiary health institution in North Eastern part of Nigeria between May and July 2020. Data were obtained through the use of structured questionnaire, which was subjected to a pilot study for validation of the main study. Summated scores were used to grade respondents who are healthcare workers on their knowledge, attitude and willingness towards covid-19 preventive measures. Data were presented in using descriptive analysis and inferential status was used to test for the association between various characteristics and their knowledge, attitude and willingness of healthcare workers toward covid-19 preventive measures. Result: The result showed that (37.5%) of the 127 respondent has good knowledge on covid-19 and (93.6%) has positive attitude and willingness toward covid-19 preventive measure. It was further revealed that there was a statistical significant association between occupation out of all the demographic variables and the knowledge, attitude and willingness toward covid-19 preventive measure. Conclusion: Most of the healthcare workers had good knowledge, attitude and willingness toward covid-19 preventive measure. Additional educative interventive strategies are to be adopted by the hospital/health ministry for health workers to improve their knowledge on communicable disease.

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Knowledge, Attitude and Willingness of Health Care Workers Towards COVID-19 Preventive Measure in a Tertiary Health Institution in North Eastern Part of Nigeria