78-straight positive tests: Turkish man battles COVID-19 for 14 months and counting

When Muzaffer Kayasan first caught COVID-19, he thought he was destined to die since he was already suffering from leukemia. Fourteen months and 78 straight positive tests later, he is still alive - and still battling to shake off the infection.

"I guess this is the female version of COVID - she has been obsessed with me," Kayasan joked last week as he found out that his latest PCR test was, yet again, positive.

Kayasan's doctor, Serap Simsek Yavuz, infectious diseases and clinical microbiology professor at Istanbul University, said this is the longest case they have tracked and it is being closely monitored for any risk of a mutated variant.

"There is a 99% possibility that this virus is no longer active and therefore it is not contagious," Yavuz said.

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