A 62-year-old Latino man, who tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has suffered a 4-hour erection, while in an intensive care unit of a hospital in France.

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Because of this incident, doctors have warned that a male coronavirus patient could suffer hours of erection. According to the doctors, the 62-year-old man suffered a four-hour erection due to blood clot triggered by the illness.

The Latino man suffered from what the medical experts called as priapism or the persistent and painful erection of the penis. His case report was immediately published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Doctors of Le Chesnay hospital, where the man was confined, initially applied an ice pack, but the erection never subsides or disappeared even after four hours. This prompted the doctors to use a needle to drain blood from his private area.

Doctors found out that the private area of the Latino man was full of blood clots, according to a published report in Fox News.

According to doctors, a blood clot is very common for COVID-19 patients. However, they said the condition of the elderly man was the first known priapism, which was triggered by blood trapped in the private area caused by COVID-19.

"The clinical and laboratory presentation in our patient strongly suggests priapism related to SARS-CoV-2 infection," the doctors said. 

However, the doctors admitted that there's still a need for additional research to establish the link between blood clotting and COVID-19.

There are still many things that doctors and experts are figuring out about the coronavirus. Just recently, new symptoms of coronavirus were reported. 

Aside from that, there were also recovered COVID-19 patients, who continue to experience symptoms like loss sense of smell, fever, and cough for weeks or more than a month. 

An example of this is the condition of Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player who tested positive for COVID-19, where he has recovered from the virus, but not yet fully healed. 

Until now, his sense of smell is not 100 percent back because he cannot smell by afar. When he consulted a specialist, he was told that it will take a year to have his sense of smell back to normal.

These situations are manifestations that there are still many things that remained unknown and yet to be discovered about the new coronavirus.