Dikhyaa Mohanty 
As per a recent study, it was found that a COVID-positive woman carried the coronavirus for over seven months who was HIV-positive and mutated 32 times.
According to the report, the study which was published in medRxiv stated that a 36-year-old woman in South Africa who was HIV-positive contracted COVID-19 last year. The SARS-CoV-2 virus stayed in her body for 216 days and mutated 32 times.
As per the study, 13 mutations took place in the coronavirus’ spike protein which helps the virus beat the human body’s immune response, while the other 19 mutations were linked to the behaviour of the contagion.
But it was not clear that whether the virus had been transmitted to others from the woman. As per the report the scientists are suspecting that if this behaviour of the virus is established in other patients as well, then it could be possible that HIV infection is creating more variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The woman had enrolled on a study on 300 HIV-positive people who had contracted COVID-19. Four other HIV-positive patients were found to have carried the coronavirus for over a month.
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