“…Nowadays, mathematical modeling is considered an effective and important tool for describing the cause and transmission dynamics of many common infectious diseases such as the HIV/AIDS [ 29 , 30 ], COVID-19 [ 27 , 31 , 48 ], tuberculosis (TB) [ 3 , 37 ], Lassa fever [ 4 ], Ebola, syphilis [ 9 ] cancer cells [ 36 ], polio [ 21 ] and many others which are classified in [ 4 ]. In recent years, a fractional-order derivative which is being regarded as an extension of the integer-order derivative has gained a lot of scholars’ attention due to its nonlocal properties and memory effects [ 22 , 41 ].…”