The Nigerian Government has stated that COVID-19 cannot be spread through sexual intercourse.
This was disclosed by the National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu.
Aliyu made the disclosure just days after the Minister of Health Ehanire Osagie said that the “virus can be transmitted sexually” if one partner is positive.
“At the moment, there’s no evidence of sexual transmission when it comes to COVID-19, but of course, we are still in the early days of the disease.
”The same thing happened in the case of Ebola, when subsequently it was proven that it was sexually transmissible.
“There was a small test case series of ten women who had severe COVID-19 and genital secretions were negative of COVID-19 virus. I think it’s still in the early days. I’ll just say, watch this space”, he said.