e-ISSN 2775-3301 Literasi: Jurnal Pengabdian pada Masyarakat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. All Rights Reserved e-ISSN 2775-3301 Upaya Penanggulangan Covid-19 di Kelurahan Procot, Kecamatan Slawi, Kabupaten Tegal Makhabbah Jamilatun 1 , Rafidha Hasyim 2 1 Jurusan Anafarma Poltekkes Kemenkes Surakarta, Jl. Ksatrian, Danguran, Klaten Selatan Email : makhabbah.j@gmail.com Kilas Artikel Abstrak Volume 3 Nomor 1 Februari 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.58466/literasi Article History Submission: 02-01-2023 Revised: 02-01-2023 Accepted: 1-02-2023 Published: 11-02-2023 Kata Kunci: penanggulangan, covid-19, tegal. . Keywords: countermeasures, covid-19, tegal. Korespondensi: Makhabbah Jamilatun makhabbah.j@gmail.com Covid-19 merupakan penyakit yang disebabkan oleh virus corona jenis baru. Virus penyebab Covid-19 ini dinamakan Sars-CoV-2. Beberapa jenis coronavirus diketahui menyebabkan infeksi saluran nafas pada manusia. Gejala- gejala yang dialami biasanya bersifat ringan dan muncul secara bertahap. Covid-19 dapat menular melalui droplet atau percikan ketika orang berbicara atau batuk dari orang yang terkena Covid-19. Penyakit Covid-19 ini harus diwaspadai karena penularan yang relatif cepat, memiliki tingkat mortalitas yang tidak dapat diabaikan, dan belum adanya terapi definitive. Melonjaknya angka positif Covid di Indonesia, seharusnya menambah kesadaran masyarakat terhadap bahaya pandemi. Berdasarkan observasi di awal waktu pandemi, masyarakat di sekitar Kelurahan Procot, Kecamatan Slawi, Kabupaten Tegal, belum semuanya memahami pencegahan sebagai upaya penanggulangan covid- 19. Oleh karena itu, dilakukan kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat sebagai upaya penanggulangan Covid-19 di Kelurahan Procot, Kecamatan Slawi, Kabupaten Tegal. Dengan adanya kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini diharapkan warga dapat memahami cara pencegahan covid-19 dan menerapkannya, sehingga bisa berkontribusi dalam pencegahan covid-19 khususnya di Kelurahan Procot, Kecamatan Slawi, Kabupaten Tegal Abstract Covid-19 is a disease caused by a new type of coronavirus. The virus that causes Covid-19 is called Sars-CoV-2. Several types of coronavirus are known to cause respiratory infections in humans. The symptoms experienced are usually mild and appear gradually. Covid- 19 can be transmitted through droplets or splashes when people talk or cough from people who have Covid-19. This Covid-19 disease must be watched out for because of its relatively fast transmission, has a mortality rate that cannot be ignored, and there is no definitive therapy. The soaring positive number of Covid in Indonesia should increase public awareness of the dangers of the pandemic. Based on observations at the beginning of the pandemic, people around Procot Village, Slawi District, Tegal District, did not all understand prevention as an effort to overcome COVID-19. Therefore, community service activities were carried out as an effort to overcome Covid-19 in Procot Village, Slawi District, Tegal Regency. With this community service activity, it is hoped that residents will be able to understand how to prevent COVID-19 and apply it, so that they can 414