'Japanese Baba Vanga's chilling prediction on Covid’s return resurfaces amid rising cases

TOKYO, JAPAN: Amid the rising Covid-19 cases across the world, the predictions of Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, known as Japan's "Baba Vanga" due to her seemingly accurate predictions of events like the Kobe earthquake and even Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's death, have resurfaced.

Tatsuki's 1999 book ‘The Future I Saw’ has gained attention as people think it predicted the Covid-19 pandemic as well as its return. 

According to Worldometer, by April 2024, the disease had killed 7,010,681 people around the globe after affecting 704,753,890. 

Japan's 'Baba Vanga' predicted Covid-19 would 'appear again’ in 2030

Ryo Tatsuki's 1999 book states, "In 25 years, an unknown virus will come in 2020, will disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later," potentially referring to the year 2030, as per LaDbible.

She has said that the return will create more havoc while overturning global health systems.

Although Tatsuki has not mentioned anything about 2025, rising cases are enough to concern people. 

According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest data, as of May 11, a total of 777,825,189 Covid-19 cases were reported globally, with 103 million cases in the US.

In a May 28 update, the WHO stated, "Since mid-February 2025, according to data available from sentinel sites, global SARS-CoV-2 activity has been increasing, with the test positivity rate reaching 11%, levels that have not been observed since July 2024." 

It added, "This rise is primarily observed in countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, and Western Pacific regions."

WHO will ‘continue monitoring the Covid-19 epidemiological situation’

The organization has stated that it will “utilize various sources to continue monitoring the Covid-19 epidemiological situation via the WHO Covid-19 dashboard.”

“If data for certain countries is unavailable in this section, it may indicate that they have either ceased reporting Covid-19 surveillance data to WHO or have integrated the Covid-19 surveillance into existing respiratory disease surveillance,” it added.

Meanwhile, during the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines were eventually launched to control the disease. "Vaccination remains a key intervention for preventing severe disease and death from COVID-19, particularly among at risk groups," according to the WHO.

CDC advocates Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children

Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently said that healthy children can take Covid-19 vaccines if parents and doctors agree that it is needed.

“Where the parent presents with a desire for their child to be vaccinated, children 6 months and older may receive COVID-19 vaccination, informed by the clinical judgment of a healthcare provider and personal preference and circumstances,” it mentioned in a statement, as reported by Reuters.

This came after Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr, a long-time vaccine skeptic, had said that "the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule."

“Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children,” he claimed.