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cord-279395-qfb06csa	Khan, Samea	Is Pakistan prepared for the COVID‐19 epidemic? A questionnaire‐based survey	2020-04-10		.txt	text/plain	1950	111	57	In this cross‐sectional survey, a self‐designed questionnaire was distributed among 302 HCWs including physicians (10.9%), nurses (1.32%), lab staff (1.65%), and academic individuals including faculty and students (86.42%) of different organizations. [4] [5] [6] At present as the world health organization (WHO) has declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic, Pakistan is facing a critical situation and strict measures need to be taken to avert the threat of a national health crisis. The main aim of the present questionnaire-based analysis was to check the awareness level among the employees at educational institutes and the health care workers (HCWs) in various organizations across Pakistan. These include students and faculty (261) and HCWs (41) of which 32 physicians, 4 nurses and 5 laboratory staff in public and private sector educational and health institutes across Pakistan filled a questionnaire. HCWs (13.56%) of which 10.59% physicians, 1.32% nurses and 1.65% laboratory staff in public and private sector educational and health institutes across Pakistan submitted their responses to the questionnaire.	./cache/cord-279395-qfb06csa.txt	./txt/cord-279395-qfb06csa.txt