In the past weeks, we have conveyed an interesting case of COVID-19 in our country to you. A man with leukemia had also tested positive for 78 COVID-19 tests over the course of 14 months. A similar situation occurred in Italy.
A Ukrainian man, who was on vacation in Italy, disappeared while he was swimming in the sea with his friends in Chieti, Italy. After 16 hours of search, it was seen that the man’s body was stuck between the rocks. After the man’s death, a very interesting event occurred.
28 COVID-19 tests performed on the body for 6 weeks were positive
It was stated that before his death, the Ukrainian man did not show any symptoms that he had COVID-19. However, the Ukrainian man tested positive for COVID-19, which was routinely done during the autopsy. The autopsy doctors were not satisfied with one test and performed 28 more COVID-19 tests on the dead body over 41 days (6 weeks).
All 28 tests were positive again. The body of the Ukrainian man is still preserved by the doctors in the morgue at 4 degrees and in a waterproof body bag. Although there is currently limited data on the risk of infection from a dead body, this rare event will provide important data to learn how long COVID-19 will remain in the body after a person dies.
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