“…Recently, an unprecedented event has shocked the entire world called the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) according to the World Health Organisation's report (WHO, 2023). The virus was first discovered in December 2019, in Wuhan, China, and from the epicentre it spread across the world within months due to the features of globalization and modern mass tourism (Galvani et al, 2020;Raffay, 2020;Sigala, 2020;Uğur & Akbıyık, 2020;Felkai, 2021), which led the WHO to announce a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and to declare the outbreak as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Despite several studies have underlined that in the 21th century a small number of countries already have experienced disease outbreaks like SARS, MERS, Ebola, H1N1 or Zika (Folinas & Metaxas, 2020;Gössling et al, 2020;Uğur & Akbıyık, 2020;Zenker & Kock, 2020;Liu et al, 2021;Matiza & Kruger, 2021;Škare et al, 2021), COVID-19 has rapidly infected more than 200 countries (WHO, 2023), creating a global unparalleled crisis.…”