The outbreak of the Corona Virus epidemic - which appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January this year - has caused doctors around the world to sound the alarm, prompting authorities in many countries to take preventive measures.

As of last Wednesday, the number of deaths from the virus in China reached at least 1,355 people and 60,000 infected, according to official figures released by the Chinese authorities.

In his report published by the Russian newspaper "Argomante Evakte", the author Igor Karev reviewed the films that predicted the spread of these epidemics all over the world.

Andromeda dynasty
A new virus arrives to Earth via satellite, and a group of volunteer scientists in a private cellar are researching what this virus is and how to overcome it before it kills more people.

The film was directed by Robert Wise in 1971, and it is excerpted from a novel of the same name by Michael Crayton.

confrontation
A four-part television movie directed by American director Mick Grace based on a novel of the same name by the famous American writer Stephen King in 1978.

In the novel, King discusses the development of a dangerous virus in a military laboratory, and because of a mistake the virus spreads outside the laboratory, and the symptoms of infection were similar to the symptoms of colds in the beginning, but after a few days all died, except for a few who have a strong immune system.

12 monkeys
In the movie Author Terry Gilliam, the scientist faces an unknown virus that has destroyed human lives, forcing survivors to hide in underground warehouses and sometimes even surface surfaces to collect samples, while a group is working on a secret project to send a criminal into a past trip to collect information on how The spread of the virus.

Outbreaks
Director Wolfgang Petersen gained a great reputation in Germany thanks to the films "The Boat" and "Endless Story", and in the mid-eighties he directed several successful films, such as "infection", "in the line of fire" and "hijacking of the President's plane" , And "Trojan".

Petersen was not afraid to address the idea of ​​the possibility of an unknown disease, and in his movie "Outbreak" he talked about the emergence of a virus in Africa that cannot be cured with available drugs first appeared in the Capuchin monkey, and as a result of the animal's arrival in the United States, all of the city's residents were infected with this disease.

Infection
Perhaps the 2011 movie "Infection" by American director Stephen Soderberg reflects the situation in the world today, as it depicts the arrival of a highly contagious and deadly virus in the United States from Hong Kong, prompting scientists to work day and night to develop a vaccine against this virus.