Dr. Sani Aliyu, National Co-ordinator of Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has disclosed that scientists are yet to prove that Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can be sexually transmitted.
Dr. Aliyu made the disclosure at the COVID-19 daily Press briefing on Wednesday, while reacting to a Journalist’s question who claimed COVID-19 still remained in the male testis of a patient after treatment.
The PTF Co-ordinator said that although the pandemic was in its early days, medical experts were yet to prove that the virus could be transmitted sexually. He cited the case of a female Coronavirus patient whose genital secretions tested negative to the virus.
Dr. Aliyu said “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”
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