From COVID-19 End Year to Hantavirus in 2026: Astrologist's Prediction on X in 2022 Coming True

An X (formerly Twitter) handle that predicted the COVID-19 pandemic end date and the Hantavirus outbreak is now coming true. The user named Soothsayer claimed to be an astrologist who had predicted back on June 10, 2022, that Coronavirus will end in the year 2023 and Hantavirus will spread in 2026. 

"2023: Corona ended. 2026: Hantavirus," X user Soothsayer in a post in 2022 who wrote "reads the future" in his profile description. 

Reposing with a comment, Indian DJ and MTV host, Nikhil Chinapa, was shocked by the prediction of 2022 by a Soothsayer about Hantavirus, which has created concern for doctors and researchers across the world after three deaths onboard a cruise ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Can someone tell me how this random account predicted Hantavirus 2026, in (checks date) 2022!!! 😳😳‼️ https://t.co/MDEJBsuyES

— Nikhil Chinapa (@nikhilchinapa) May 7, 2026

Nikhil Chinapa asked his fans a question with shocking emojis about how some random person can predict Hantavirus 4 years before. He wrote while retweeting the prediction, "Can someone tell me how this random account predicted Hantavirus 2026, in (checks date) 2022!!!"

Since Chinapa's repost, the random Soothsayer prediction post on X, it has gone viral with huge reactions. At the time of writing this report, the post of June 10, 2022, received over 101,000 likes, over 44,000 retweets and 11,000 comments with memes flooded. 

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Meanwhile, when the MV Hondius cruise ship reported deaths due to hantavirus, concern grew all over the world, including in India. The virus, which spreads through rodents' droppings, has claimed three lives until now. 

Days after it was reported it was the Andes strain of the virus, the only strain that causes human-to-human transmission and was behind the outbreak.

Hantavirus Andes Strain

On Wednesday morning, the South African parliament presented the document stating the Andes strain is the only strain that is known to cause human-to-human transmission, according to the BBC report. The report quoted South African health authorities saying that the Andes strain was found in both confirmed patients after tests conducted by the country's National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Hantavirus Timeline

In May 2026, seven cases of Hantavirus were reported, out of which two cases tested positive for Hantavirus and five were suspected. As of now, three deaths have been reported and one is in critical and three patients are reporting mild symptoms. In Argentina, at least 20 deaths occurred between July 2025 and January 2026 from the virus. Argentina is currently dealing with its own ongoing outbreak. The Andes strain was first identified in Chile and Argentina back in 1995, and it's primarily carried by a species of rodent called the pygmy rice rat.