“…Although these are valuable contributions, but results of these contributions are based on quite small datasets, which can affect the reliability of the corresponding forecasts ( Moftakhar et al., 2020 ). Secondly, all of these contributions utilized the classical models which consider the model parameters as fixed quantities, which may not be suitable for dynamic systems such as this pandemic ( McQuire et al., 2019 ; Scott & Varian, 2013 ). A careful review of literature suggests that no study has involved the evolving behavior of the COVID-19 patterns.…”