_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ # Professor; ≡ Senior Resident; ⱷ Postgraduate resident; *Corresponding author: E-mail: rohitraina103@yahoo.com; International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal 16(4): 32-42, 2021; Article no.INDJ.83331 ISSN: 2321-7235, NLM ID: 101632319 Perception of Junior Doctors and Nurses towards the COVID-19 Disease in a Tertiary Care Centre in North India- A Questionnaire Based Study Puneeta Gupta a# , Rohit Raina b*≡ , Yasir Majid cⱷ , Khushboo Mir cⱷ and Anil K. Gupta c# a Department of Medicine, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Jammu, 180019 Jammu and Kashmir, India. b Department of Internal Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, 249203, Uttarakhand, India. c Department of Internal Medicine, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Sidhra Jammu 180019, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/INDJ/2021/v16i430189 Open Peer Review History: This journal follows the Advanced Open Peer Review policy. Identity of the Reviewers, Editor(s) and additional Reviewers, peer review comments, different versions of the manuscript, comments of the editors, etc are available here: https://www.sdiarticle5.com/review-history/83331 Received 22 November 2021 Accepted 25 December 2021 Published 27 December 2021 ABSTRACT Background: Resident or junior doctors and nursing staff make up the backbone of any public health care facility more so in cases of centers affiliated to teaching hospitals. Resident physicians have the most prolonged contact with patients as they represent the first communication interface between the attending physician and the patient. Similarly, the nursing staff has a critical role in patient care. Therefore, to minimize the morbidity and mortality due to Covid-19, it is important to be fully informed and compliant with measures to contain Covid-19. Objectives: To assess the perception of the junior doctors and nurses regarding the various aspects of Covid-19 disease. Methods: A preformed structured questionnaire with closed end questions was sent to the study subjects using the electronic media. In this study, questionnaire was sent to the convenient sample Original Research Article