Educational institutions promptly implemented set of steps as a preventive measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 amongst Kogi state students, such as restrictive physical exercise popularly known as “social distancing”, putting on mask , daily health reporting , washing your hand with soap and water and the use of hand sanitizer. Success of these behavioral changes comparing largely depends on awareness of the targeted population. The aim of this study is to evaluate the most effective measures taken by individual to control the spread of the covid-19 pandemic in Kogi State using Chi-Square method .We conducted a survey using questionnaire among 500 students from two tertiary institutions in kogi state, 200 students from Kogi State Polytechnic and 300 students from Federal University Lokoja in Kogi state and only 200 questionnaires were successfully collected from the institutions. The questionnaires were focused on preventive measure taken mostly by students. The result show that the leading respondents were within 17 to 46 years age group. The preventive and supportive measures taken by students or provided by the respective institutions or authorities were positively related to students satisfaction and had an acceptable strength(x2> 9.488, df=2,p>=0.05). From the result received we noticed that most students in Kogi state, Lokoja take measures in the wearing nose masks, washing hands with soap and water, sanitizing hand after washing but students are not complying with social distancing and hand sanitizing after school hours. Moreover Health education training must be organized to improve COVID- 19 awareness.
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