Adherence to implementing physical distancing and other COVID-19 preventive measures and its barriers among adults in Arba Minch town, Southwest Ethiopia: A lesson learned from the pandemic

• Teklu Wegayehu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Teklu Wegayehu, Mekuria Asnakew Asfaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tekluweg2007@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1719-6321

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• Tsegaye Yohannes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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• Chuchu Churko,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Collaborative Research and Training Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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• Alemayehu Bekele,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Collaborative Research and Training Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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• Mekuria Asnakew Asfaw

  Contributed equally to this work with: Teklu Wegayehu, Mekuria Asnakew Asfaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, United States of America

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