is there any way to hide category from the category sidebar widget too?

Hello,

I have hidden all the products in a certain category for a country and no products are shown in that category, so that’s fine.
However, in the sidebar widget, I can still see the category with the product count, but when you click on it, it doesn’t show any products as the products are hideen for that country.
Is there any way to exclude that from the widget too? because there is no point of that category still showing for that country as all the products are hidden.

let me know if there is a work around.
thank you
Regards