“…Most of the studies (83.3%) included in this review showed positive results of the possible use of GT for forecasting COVID-19 outbreaks (Tables 1 and 2). Most of the publications with positive results were performed in Western countries-mostly in Europe [8, (55.5%), less in the USA [5,7,8,13,14,17,20,22,23,25,27,30,31,34,[36][37][38][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52] (51.9%), Australia [8,14,22,23,25,30,34,38] (14.8%), and Canada [22,25,30,34,38,48] (11.1%). The rest (50%) of the studies were performed in the Middle East [8,13,18,22,…”