First Topic Efforts and Activities of the National Institution for Human Rights in the Protection of Human Rights during the Emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic This topic will address the NIHR’s efforts and activities in the field of human rights protection during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak - within the period assigned for the report – covering in Requirement One the total announced and unannounced visits to correctional, rehabilitation, and detention centers, expatriate workers housing, and isolation and quarantine centers, while under Requirement Two is demonstrated the complaints received, the legal aid provided, and the cases detected. Requirement One The announced and unannounced visits to correctional, rehabilitation, and detention centers, expatriate workers housing, and isolation and quarantine centers 1. According to the mandated role of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) in the Kingdom of Bahrain under Article 12 – item g of its establishing Law No (26) of 2014 which stated that “To conduct field visits in accordance with the applicable principles in order to monitor human rights situation in correctional institutions, detention centers, labor gatherings, medical and educational homes, or any other public place in which it is suspected that human rights violations are committed.” The Committee on Visiting Detention Places and Facilities conducted field visits to several centers under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior, and also to the isolation and quarantine medical centers under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, which the Kingdom allocated at various governorates to treat infected patients with coronavirus, follow up their condition, and the condition of those who were exposed to them. The Committee also visited the housing quarters of expatriate workers. 2. These visits reflect the expanding role of NIHR in implementing its tasks and assessing the availability of human rights under various situations and occasions, and that there are no violations of these rights, especially the right to health and the right to food. The isolation and quarantine centers and NIHR Bahrain- Eighth Annual Report 2020 10