After contracting the coronavirus in November 2020, Muzaffe Kayasan said goodbye to normal life once and for all. According to foreign media reports on February 8, the 56-year-old Turkish man has been in quarantine for the past 14 months due to the continuous positive test results of the new crown.
Muzaf Kayasan
It is reported that Kayasan is a leukemia patient who was first diagnosed with the new crown virus in November 2020 and was subsequently admitted to the hospital for treatment. Two weeks later, his condition improved, so he was discharged home for self-isolation as prescribed. He had expected that he would be fully recovered in two weeks, like most patients. But surprisingly, he has since taken at least 78 tests, each of which was positive, forcing him to remain in isolation.
In the 14 months so far, Kayasan has been in hospital for 9 months and self-isolated at home for 5 months. During his self-isolation, his wife lived with him for some time but was not infected by him, and both times tested negative for COVID-19. The youngest son who lives with them also tested negative.
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"At first I thought I was a virus carrier, but that wasn't the case. I've recovered, but I still have traces of COVID-19 in my body. This is the only explanation I've been told to test positive all the time. He said. Doctors said it was because he had leukemia and a fragile immune system.
He broke down and said that the new crown infection had left him completely without a social life. Today, he is left alone at home every day, meeting friends and family through the window. "Because of my physical condition, I didn't have the opportunity to connect to the vaccine. It's a very difficult process. He said in a recent interview. He therefore hoped that the authorities would find a solution for themselves and return to normal life.
According to local media reports, Kayasan appears to be the longest known person to be persistently positive, breaking the record of 72-year-old David Smith in the Uk who has been infected for more than 290 days and tested positive for COVID-19 42 times. In June 2021, foreign media reported that Smith was the person with the longest infection so far, and he was finally completely cured after receiving Regeneron's cocktail therapy.
It is worth noting that, like Kasanya, Smith is also a leukemia patient. Due to chemotherapy, he has low levels of virus-neutralizing antibodies, which is also characteristic of most patients with persistent COVID-19 infection. According to the report, this part of the patients have either been treated for leukemia or because of a genetic condition that causes defects in the body's antibody-producing cells.
Red Star News reporter Xu Huan
Edited by Pan Li
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