SARS-CoV-2 is an infection
that affects several organs and has a wide range of symptoms in addition
to producing severe acute respiratory syndrome. Millions of individuals
were infected when it first started because of how quickly it travelled
from its starting location to nearby countries. Anticipating positive
Covid-19 incidences is required in order to better understand future
risk and take the proper preventative and precautionary measures. As a
result, it is critical to create mathematical models that are durable
and have as few prediction errors as possible. This study suggests a
unique hybrid strategy for examining the status of Covid-19 confirmed
patients in conjunction with complete vaccination. First, the selective
opposition technique is initially included into the Grey Wolf Optimizer
(GWO) in this study to improve the exploration and exploitation capacity
for the given challenge. Second, to execute the prediction task with
the optimized hyper-parameter values, the Least Squares Support Vector
Machines (LSSVM) method is integrated with Selective Opposition based
GWO as an objective function. The data source includes daily occurrences
of confirmed cases in Malaysia from February 24, 2021 to July 27, 2022.
Based on the experimental results, this paper shows that SOGWO-LSSVM
outperforms a few other hybrid techniques with ideally adjusted
parameters.