1 / 10A 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.2 / 10Citing a Chinese study that warned that semen could carry the virus, Veerawat Manosutthi said people should even avoid kissing.3 / 10In the UK so far there have been over 33,000 fatalities from the virus and globally it has killed over 302,000 people.4 / 10Manosutthi claimed that people should 'wear a condom when they start to become sexually active again even after 30 days'.5 / 10Earlier this month researchers claimed that men who had recovered from the infection still had Covid-19 in their semen.6 / 10Chinese scientists analysed the output of 38 patients who had caught the illness – 15 who were still in hospital and 23 who had recovered.7 / 10Overall 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.8 / 10Scientists say it suggests the bug can persist much longer in the testes and could be spread later through sex.9 / 10Writing 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'.10 / 10He 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.