The national coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu, has said there is no scientific proof that the infection is sexually transmissible.
Mr Aliyu, while responding to questions at the PTF daily briefing on Wednesday, said although the world was still in the early days of the disease, no research had proven that it could be transmitted through sex.
”At the moment, there is no evidence of sexual transmission when it comes to COVID-19, but of course, we are still in the early days of the disease,” he said. “The same thing happened in the case of Ebola when subsequently it was proven that it was sexually transmissible.”
Mr Aliyu’s statement came days after the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, said there is a high possibility of the virus being transmitted sexually.
”If a person is positive, the virus can be transmitted sexually,” Mr Ehanire had said.
As of Wednesday morning, Nigeria had recorded 782 cases of COVID-19 and 25 deaths. Majority of the confirmed cases are people who have come in contact with positive patients.