The Egyptian author and physician Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq, who passed away in 2018, predicted the spread of the Corona virus in the world and its entry into Egypt, six years from now. He also expected that Egypt would eliminate the virus, stressing: "It has no place in Egypt ... You do not have to worry."
Tawfiq, nicknamed "The Godfather", in his book "Sherbat Al-Haj Dawood", devoted a chapter entitled "Death of a virus", which he started saying: "I do not feel that the problem of the Corona virus is so serious if it reaches Egypt ... and the reason I will explain it right away." Before proceeding to describe an imaginary journey of the virus since its entry into Egypt: “When Corona arrived in Egypt he had this dreaded name MERS-CO and its meaning (the Middle East respiratory syndrome caused by the Corona virus), he landed from the plane feeling his mustache as confident as he does Mister X in films .. Tomorrow he will invade the country and hospital wards will be filled. Do you remember the SARS SARS who shivered us from his horror years ago and who discovered the Italian doctor Carlo Urbani? The SARS virus is the brother of the corona virus, with a slight difference. He even remembers the famous influenza pandemics. An epidemic of 1917, for example, which left a creature on the surface of the earth only and afflicted it, and entire villages were buried under the snow after all its people died ... and the Coruna virus hoped to repeat these glories when it arrived in Egypt, especially since the high population density and overcrowding allowed it to stay and reproduce forever ».
He reviewed through this trip the difficult conditions in which a large segment of Egyptians live, and in the end the virus dies: “After a little while he knew that his consciousness was withdrawing .. Life is leaking from him .. He fell .. Egypt has eliminated the virus, as you see I am assured .. this The weak, weak virus will become poisoned and die, so it has no place in Egypt ... You do not have to worry. ”
Social media pioneers expressed their amazement at what Tawfiq wrote six years ago, as if he were living between us now, while others made it clear that it was not strange, because Corona appeared in 2012, hit some countries and returned to decline.