This is the terrifying moment an elderly man who has being held in quarantine with coronavirus symptoms tried to force his way out of the hospital.<br /><br />The incident unfolded when the patient was being moved to an isolation room at the Tongas Regional General Hospital, Probolinggo Regency, East Java.<br /><br />The video shows two medics desperately trying to hold the door closed before the patient overpowered them and burst through.<br /><br />The man, wearing only his underwear, looked angry and ranted using the traditional regional dialect of Probolinggo.<br /><br />"I'm not wrong, why do I want to be imprisoned? I don't want to do this," he yelled.<br /><br />Anang Budi Yoelijanto, spokesman for the Corona Handling Task Force in Probolinggo District, confirmed that the incident happened at the Tongas Regional General Hospital.<br /><br />She said that the man had been a referral patient from another hospital as they suspected he had the deadly COVID-19 virus.<br /><br />Anang added: ''Although the patient managed to get out of the room, he was secured shortly after. He was placed in the health centre for observation.''<br /><br />Indonesia is one of the countries worst affected by the coronavirus in Southeast Asia with 14,749 cases and 1,007 deaths as of Tuesday May 12.
