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Abstract
Leading Human resource has never been easy for the state authorities, and that comes with rigorous challenges, typically in times of crisis such as wars, conflict, financial crisis, natural disasters as well as disease outbreaks. That is to say that not only controlling the contagious and transmittable disease in the community but working on managing people in a right way that contain the pandemic in the country.
To fight COVID-19 outbreak, governments around the world have started to practice quarantine, which has been a potent measure for restricting and containing the virus from spreading quickly. The novel COVID-19 outbreak in the Wuhan city of Hubei province in China in late 2019-early 2020, has led to a world pandemic in which Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, similar to the other countries, is affected. This paper addresses the quarantine in the Raparin area in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. According to the statement from the Ministry of Health of the KRG March 28, 2020, the number of infected individuals in the region is 122 individuals, 2 death, and 51 have totally recovered. While total number of people in quarantines in the region are as: 5273 individuals, in 35 different location, currently only 1422 persons are in quarantine, 425 in Erbil, 281 in Sulaimania, 628 in Duhok, 30 in Halabja, 5 in Garmian, 33 in Raparin, 20 in Koya. And 3651individuals have been discharged in quarantines after 14 days stay. Besides, in last 24 hours, 129 more people are admitted to quarantine.