Since December 2019 the world has been going through the greatest global health crisis of the last decades. The COVID-19 pandemic had already producedmore than 267million cases and about 5.3 million deaths at the end of December 2021. Each country that faces the threat of COVID-19 tries to inform its policy response using forecasting tools to determine the magnitude of the epidemic wave and the capacity of its health systems to plan ahead for the heavy demand for healthcare (WHO-Europe 2020). In a way, the quality of the response to the epidemic will depend on the ability of countries to adequately monitor and predict behavior of the epidemic, extracting useful information and implement timely effective public health interventions to reduce transmission (Ferguson et al. 2020).
