Fig. 6

The plots of the real data and the predicted averages for the next 10 days. As we described above, for each day k we compute the average of the real data for the next 10 days and the average of the predicted data for the next 10 days. Notice the important fact that each prediction is made in terms of the previous 7 days. The close match suggests a very good prediction power of our approach. A slight difference appears in the case of the infected number of people during the forth wave of the pandemic, namely the Fall of 2021