“…It has been in numerous real-world applications, including the health sector, due to its high accuracy and performance. Therefore, recently, SVM has been used for combating the COVID-19 pandemic because of its superior performance ( Singh et al, 2020 , Ismael and Şengür, 2021 ). Various articles published on the detection ( Hassanien et al, 2020 , Yao et al, 2020 , Sethy et al, 2020 ), classification ( Barstugan et al, 2020 , Randhawa et al, 2020 ), and prediction and forecasting ( Hazarika and Gupta, 2020 , Ribeiro et al, 2020 , Pourhomayoun and Shakibi, 2020 , Fang et al, 2020 , Sun et al, 2020 , Ella Hassanien et al, 2020 , de Batista, 2020 ) have been discussed in this sub-section.…”