The mortality of newborn in Indonesia is still high. Therefore it needs interventions to decrease this prevalence . The Covid-19 pandemic caused some of people stay at home and it can caused primipara hard enough to get information and to get knowledge about newborn care. Primipara with low knowledge has higher risk of causing infants health problems, compared to those with high knowledge. To figure out the correlation between characteristics of primipara and knowledge level of newborn care in pandemic Covid-19. It was a quantitative research with cross sectional study design. It used total sampling technique with 33 respondents of primipara. The data of this study were obtained by using closed questionnaire based on inclusion criteria taken primiparous women having 40-day-old babies. Results of this study were analyzed using bivariate analysis with Correlation of Product Pearson. Primiparaos mother was characterized based on age, education, and occupation. Pearson Product Correlation analysis based on age characteristic obtained p value = 0.005 <0.05, correlation between education of primipara and newborn care knowledge obtained p value = 0.000 < 0.05, correlation between job of primipara and newborn care knowledge obtained p value = 0.004< 0.05. It can be stated that there was a correlation between characteristics of primipara and knowledge level of newborn care. There was a correlation between primipara characteristics and newborn care knowledge level. Nurses should be involved to share knowledge using media social such as whats-app counseling.