The story of a Turkish man who has been imprisoned for over a year after continuously testing positive for COVID-19 is a hot topic. 



According to foreign media such as US Insider on the 12th local time, Muzaffur Kayasan, 56, who lives in Istanbul, Turkey, has been in quarantine for 14 months after testing positive for 78 Corona 19 tests. 



Kayasan has been spending 9 months in the hospital and 5 months at home alone since he was first confirmed with COVID-19 in December 2020. 



In Turkey, if a person tests positive for COVID-19, quarantine is mandatory for 7 days, and if negative on the 5th day, the quarantine can be lifted. 



Kaya San, a leukemia patient, first thought he was doomed to die when he was infected with COVID-19, but contrary to his concerns, he did not develop any symptoms.

But he is living a life that is close to being incarcerated as the COVID-19 virus does not leave his body for a long time.  




In an interview with the Turkish daily Daily Sava, Mr. Kayasan said, "Corona symptoms have improved and I am waiting for a complete recovery at home." "I have to test negative to be released from quarantine, but when I test it, it still comes out positive. I've been incarcerated for 14 months. “He said. 



"Everything else is tolerable, but it's so hard not to be able to freely meet my loved ones," he added. 



Medical staff believe that the reason Kayasan is unable to get out of the corona 19 infection state is 'weakened immune system due to leukemia'. 



A study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that patients with weakened immune systems are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 for a longer period of time.

In addition, according to a study by the Society for Leukemia and Lymphoma, 1 in 4 patients with blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma do not produce antibodies properly even if they receive the corona vaccine. 



"This is the longest infection period we have tracked," said Serab Simsek Yavuz, Kayasan's doctor and professor of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology at Istanbul University. is doing," he said. 



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