According to the recent study SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 can stay in the sperm of the recovered patients for up to 90 days after hospital discharge and for 110 days after the initial infection. New Delhi: COVID-19 has been declared to be an end as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO), despite this, the long-term effects of the virus are still lingering around. From heart health to brain the COVID-19 virus has tended to impact people for a long time post-infection.
A recent conducted at the University of Paulo (USP) in Brazil has revealed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 can stay in the sperm of the recovered patients for up to 90 days after hospital discharge and for 110 days after the initial infection. According to the researchers of the study, this can adversely impact the semen quality of people. The findings of the study have been published in the Journal Andrology, which also suggested that people who are planning to have kids should observe a ‘quarantine’ period after recovering from the virus.
COVID-19 virus detected in semen of 9 out of 13 patients As per reports and studies, SARS-CoV-2 has rarely been detected in the semen of people, hence to find out the USP study employed a real-time PCR and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to detect the viral RNA in semen and spermatozoa that was donated by 13 men between the ages of 21 and 50. These were the men who recovered from mild, moderate or severe COVID.
