People are staying home nowadays because of the pandemic.

With couples cooped at the house, things can happen.

Is COVID-19 transmissible during sexual intercourse?

It’s one of questions answered by the Ministry of Health of Luxembourg on the European nation’s official website.

“COVID-19 is not a sexually transmitted disease,” the answer reads.

“However, the virus being present in the respiratory secretions and being able to be transmitted by direct contact of person to person, sexual intercourse is favorable to a transmission of the virus, if one of the partners is infected,” the reply continues.

Here in Canada, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control says online that the novel coronavirus first detected in China in 2019 is “transmitted via larger liquid droplets when a person coughs or sneezes”.

“The virus can enter through these droplets through the eyes, nose or throat if you are in close contact,” according to the BCCDC.

Touching can spread COVID-19.

“It can be spread by touch if a person has used their hands to cover their mouth or nose when they cough,” the BCCDC advises.