“…This study further advances the assessment of the impact of demographic and socio-economic parameters on the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths across Europe by adopting spatial regression-based approaches. Spatial regressions models have been used extensively in many epidemiological studies ranges across the scale ( Guo, Wu, & Chen, 2020 ; Guo, Yang et al, 2020 ; Liu, Sun, & Feng, 2020 ; Liu, Zhang, Jin, & Liu, 2020 ; Zhao, Zhan, Yao, & Yang, 2020 ). Diuk-Wasser, Brown, Andreadis, and Fish (2006)) evaluated the spatial distribution of mosquito vectors for West Nile virus in Connecticut, the USA using logistic regression models.…”