Longest Covid infection 'lasted nearly two years' as experts warn of virus mutations

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The longest lasting Covid infection recorded clocked in at nearly two years, scientists have revealed. A pensioner in Holland had the virus for 613 days before he died. Over that time the virus mutated around 50 times. Scientists say people such as the man, who had a weakened immune system, are perfect breeding grounds for deadly new strains of the disease. Though there has been several cases of patients having the virus for hundreds of days, the 72-year-old man, who eventually died with his

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