Open AccessThe Effect of Planning for Unexpected Events: A Case Study of COVID-19 in the Kurdistan Region
Author(s) -
Rizgar Saed Hussein,
Sardar Sabri Othman,
Sabir Sadiq Abdulkhaliq,
Murad Muzafer Hamze,
Kamaran Ibrahim Yousif,
Hushyar Yaseen Sulaiman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
twejêr
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-0752
pISSN - 2617-0744
DOI - 10.31918/twejer.2142.28
Subject(s) - covid-19 , china , government (linguistics) , geography , socioeconomics , medicine , demography , environmental health , virology , outbreak , sociology , disease , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The COVID-19 epidemic was founded in December 2019 in Wuhan city in China. It continues to spread across the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by the end of March 2020, COVID-19 had led to more than 1000,000 confirmed infections and 10,000 deaths in 110 countries – and the numbers are increasing quickly. At the time of writing this report, more than 2,000,000 cases of the virus have been recorded worldwide. Kurdistan Region is not excluded from recording new cases. However, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has taken some vital steps at the beginning to block the threat of COVIC-19, especially when some cases have been reported in neighbours countries such as Iran and Turkey. Still, at the time of writing this report, more than 200 cases have been confirmed here in Kurdistan Region. This paper aims to determine the effectiveness of planning in reducing the risk of COVID-19 and the number of infections and saving lives in the Kurdistan Region. The questionnaire technique was used to collect the data, and the questions were self-generated. In this study, the planning on unexpected events was surveyed in Kurdistan Region-Iraq. Data was collected from 323 randomly selected respondents in 2020 through using a survey questionnaire. The result of this study indicated that the relationship between most planning variables and unexpected events is significant.