"Man who attempted escape suffers from mental illness, not coronavirus"

Also from China Daily:

A suspected novel coronavirus pneumonia patient who attempted to escape from a hospital in Xiaogan city, Hubei province, was suffering from mental illness. The patient was tested negative for the virus after he was later caught, the hospital said on Monday.

On Sunday, a screen shot of a WeChat conversation among medical workers from the Southeast Hospital went viral on social media. It showed a picture of a hole in what appeared to be a wall of a ward. "Dr Wang is chasing after him," a medical worker wrote in the conversation....MORE

He sounds pretty sane to me. Get me away from all these sick people.