Retraction note: Time series forecasting of COVID-19 transmission in Asia Pacific countries using deep neural networks (Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, (2023), 27, 3, (733-750), 10.1007/s00779-020-01494-0)

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. M. Ikram Ullah Lali and Muhammad Attique Khan disagree with this retraction. Hafiz Tayyab Rauf, Seifedine Kadry, Hanan Alolaiyan, Abdul Razaq, and Rizwana Irfan have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.