7-year-old tweet about COVID-19 leaves people in shock

New Delhi: A tweet posted in 2013 about Coronavirus has left people in shock and disbelief.

The tweet was posted by a user who goes by the name Macro (@macro_acortes)

The user tweeted, “Coronavirus… It’s coming” as on June 3, 2013.

His last tweet was seen on December 11, 2016.

The tweet resurfaced with COVID-19 trending on twitter thereby leaving everyone surprised.

The post has now received 100,000 likes and 56,000 retweets.

Users reacted to his tweet with humor and many were amazed.

A user wrote, “You hacked twitter to change the date, right?”

Another user wrote, “I come from 2020 to say… You’re right…”

Meanwhile, a novel by Sylvia Brownie, “End of Days”, mentions the virus and its symptoms. The surprising part is, the novel was written 10 years ago.

https://twitter.com/Sophiejulia/status/1237930659303153665

Globally there have been 123,825 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 4,620 deaths reported so far.

Intern Anhaar Majid