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Coronaviruses belong to the Coronaviridae family in the Nidovirales order. Corona represents crown-like spikes on the outer surface of the virus; thus, it was named as a coronavirus. These viruses were thought to infect only animals until the world witnessed a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak caused by SARS-CoV, 2002 in Guangdong, China. Recently at the end of 2019, Wuhan an emerging business hub of China experienced an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that killed more than eighteen hundred and infected over seventy thousand individuals within the first fifty days of the epidemic. This virus was reported to be a member of the ? group of coronaviruses. The novel virus was named as Wuhan coronavirus or 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) by the Chinese researchers. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding COVID-19 and its prevention among BSc. Nursing 1st year students of Govt. Collage of Nursing Srinagar. The research approach adopted for the study was the Pre-experimental study. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select the sample. The sample consisted of 48 nursing students who were studying at Govt. Collage of Nursing Srinagar. The tool used for data collection was structured knowledge questionnaire. Data gathered was analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics. Major findings of the study revealed that the knowledge score of students was higher 93.8% in post-test as compared to pre-test knowledge 4.2 %.The difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge score was calculated with the paired 't' which was found statistically significant at p value<0.001. Hence, it was revealed that the mean post-test knowledge score was significantly higher than the mean pre -test knowledge score. Moreover, there was no significant association of pre-test knowledge score with selected demographic variable (p=<0.05).