Forget doing yoga, reading a book, participating in a saree challenge, whiling away time on WhatsApp and Facebook. Here is a crazy piece of advice from a health institute in the Netherlands. This lockdown time, if you are single, just go find a sex buddy. Is your mood already sexed-up?

Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) is reported to have advised the country's singles to "discuss how best to do this together" with a sex buddy.

"Meet with the same person to have physical or sexual contact, provided you are free of illness,” a guideline says, adding that individuals should refrain from having sex if even one of them is a Covid-19 suspect.

The advisory appeals to everyone to indulge in phone sex in case physical sex is not possible.

This advice comes days after the Dutch government advised single people not to have sex.