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Coronavirus : Sex should be avoided for 30 days after COVID-19 recovery says, experts

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: May 17, 2020 16:58 IST

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A senior medical expert at the Thai Disease Control Department has claimed that patients who have overcome the disease need to hold off before jumping into bed with their partners.
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Citing a Chinese study that warned that semen could carry the virus, Veerawat Manosutthi said people should even avoid kissing.
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In the UK so far there have been over 33,000 fatalities from the virus and globally it has killed over 302,000 people.
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Manosutthi claimed that people should 'wear a condom when they start to become sexually active again even after 30 days'.
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Earlier this month researchers claimed that men who had recovered from the infection still had Covid-19 in their semen.
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Chinese scientists analysed the output of 38 patients who had caught the illness – 15 who were still in hospital and 23 who had recovered.
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Overall six men, or 16 per cent, had the virus Sars-CoV-2, which causes coronavirus, in their sperm sample – and two of them were already over their illness.
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Scientists say it suggests the bug can persist much longer in the testes and could be spread later through sex.
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Writing in the journal JAMA Network Open, researcher Dr Shixi Zhang, from the Shangqiu Municipal Hospital, says 'the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in a recovering patient’s semen maintains the likelihood to infect others'.
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He added if bigger trials show coronavirus is passed on during sex, the recovering men should be encouraged to 'abstain or use condoms' to prevent transmission.
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