The Coronavirus Untold Story And Fact About The Pandemics
That the novel coronavirus has reached every nation on the planet is no news, that it is claiming lives is also no news. This is not the first time that a pandemic of this magnitude is hitting the world. In 541CE, while the supreme power of the empire was all, Emperor Justinian, ruler of the Byzantine Empire, had just conquered Egypt and as was the practice, he was entitled to tributes from his conquered lands, so along with tributes that came to Constantinople from Egypt were black rats infested with fleas, these fleas were carriers of a deadly bacterium called Yersinia pestis, this bacterium resulted in the fatal infection otherwise known as the plague. The Justinian Plague of 541 CE from across the Mediterranean Sea decimated Constantinople, it didn't stop there, like wildfire, it spread across Europe, Asia, North Africa, and Arabia leaving death in its wake. The Justinian Plague of 541 CE killed an estimated 30 to 50 million people, at 541 CE, this was perhaps half of the world