The new coronavirus has developed into a complete pandemic infecting more than 128,000 people worldwide, but had Nostradamus foresaw this viral threat 500 years ago?

The new virus has hit unexpectedly and unannounced, and the panic it has caused has led conspiracy theorists to fill social networks with unbelievable claims about its origin.

One of them is the idea that the virus was released by a secret laboratory in Vuhan, all of which are said to have been predicted in the 1981 book "Eyes of Darkness" by Dean Koontz. But most people tend to believe, as they did before, that such a thing was predicted by the famous scientist, writer, doctor and predictor Michel de Nostredame.

Nostradamus has written about his visions of the future in his four-line poems known as quatrains.

Most of them were published in the 1555 book, Prophecies.

In box 63, Nostradamus writes:

" From the honor of vanity and unworthy complaints,

"The boats shake from time to time in the Latin waves, cold and hungry,

"Not far from Tiberius, a blood-stained place,

"Various diseases will fall upon mankind."

This, therefore, may have been the coronavirus warning. The Tiber River flows into Rome (today called Tevere) as Italy is surrounded by more than 9,000 cases of COVID-19 infection.

A similar warning from Nostradamus is made in box 6:

He writes:

â?? Near the gates and within the two cities,

"There will be two cursed diseases as never seen before,

"Hunger within the disease, people killed by iron,

â??Praying to the immortal God for deliverance. "

He again mentions diseases in Quaternary 19:

â?? Comers, settlements built without protection,

"Occupied and then uninhabited place:

"Lawns, houses and fields, towns to enjoy,

"Hunger, disease, war, many fertile lands."

But did Nostradamus really want a devastating pandemic for the world? His writings have been interpreted in various ways since his death in 1566, most of them in abusive and beneficent ways, even the writings have been altered and added with false stories or fabricated codes, often unrelated to those Nostradamus has written./tch/