Scientists are beginning a manhunt for a person in Ohio who is believed to have been the longest COVID-19 positive patient ever.

The patient is believed to be living in the Columbus area, and is believed to be carrying a highly mutated version of the virus “unlike anything” experts have seen so far. Dr Marc Johnson, a microbiologist at the University of Missouri, has warned the mutations of the strain would be enough to make it a “variant of concern” should it spread across the population, the Daily Mail reported.

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Johnson’s team has been analyzing samples of COVID-19 from