“…In order to address these issues, many reaction-diffusion epidemic models with non-constant coefficients have been proposed and studied [2,17,58,59]. Specific infectious diseases modelled by diffusive models include malaria [38,39], rabies [23,42], dengue fever [53], West Nile virus [27,31], influenza [40], COVID-19 [18,25,51,57], etc.…”