<span style="color: #222222;">A 72-year-old British man tested positive for Coronavirus for 10 months in what is thought to be the longest recorded case of continuous infection, researchers said today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Dave Smith, a retired driving instructor from Bristol in western England, said he tested positive 43 times, was hospitalised seven times and had made plans for his funeral.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">His wife, Linda, who quarantined with him at home, said there were a lot of times when they didn't think he was going to pull through.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Ed Moran, a consultant in infectious diseases at the University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust, said Smith had active virus in his body throughout. A paper on his case will be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in July, saying that this is thought to be the longest infection recorded in the literature.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Smith recovered after treatment with a cocktail of synthetic antibodies developed by the US biotech firm Regeneron.</span><br />''  <br />