Abstract
To investigate the epidemiological association between TB and COVID-19 infections, we traced all the notified TB cases and the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases during the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Libya. The time and spatial distribution of COVID-19 and TB cases were compared, and the correlation between both of them was determined. The spatial autocorrelation analysis was conducted by using open GeoDa software v1.2.0 (GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ) and creating thematic mapping, as previously described