Indicators on the Feasibility of Curfew on Pandemics Outbreaks in Metropolitan/Micropolitan Cities

Mahmood, B.

The year 2020 had witnessed the greatest health crisis in history due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Most of the world-wide countries have been affected by the pandemic in terms of different life sectors such as economic, education, trading, to mention but a few. This is due to adopting Lockdown or Curfew strategies aiming at mitigating the spread of the disease. However, many indicators should be taken into consideration before adopting such strategies (e.g., population distribution). Moreover, adopting a particular strategy may work in a particular geographical area, but it may not work in other areas. This issue has not been given enough attention in the literature. Therefore, the contribution of this work is to investigate the impact of the population distribution of cities (e.g., Iraq) on the current pandemic outbreaks. The experiments demonstrate that it is not necessary to adopt a particular strategy for the whole country. The results of this work can be useful to the officials of a country in terms of mitigating the impact in economic during the pandemic. © 2021 IEEE.