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Background: COVID-19 is an emerging infectious disease caused by a novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) In Malaysia, first few cases of COVID-19 were detected in January 2020, among Chinese nationals and the cases keep increasing day by day Methods: This self-administered web based cross sectional study using Google forms was conducted among 400 Malaysian adults to explore their level of knowledge, attitude and practice towards COVID-19, as well as factors associated with the variables Descriptive and binary logistic regression were performed using SPSS version 22 Results: Knowledge and practice among Malaysian adults towards COVID-19 were low Gender (p = 0 030, OR:0 616, 95% CI 0 398-0 955) and occupation (p = 0 002, OR:2 489, 95% CI 1 485-4 172) were found as significant predictors of practice towards COVID-19 Conclusions: In conclusion, proper mass public health messages should be conducted by the higher authorities to improve knowledge and practice towards COVID-19
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