A 45-year-old man has been arrested after a group of people became abusive to hospital staff when the group attempted to remove a Covid-19 patient. The man, of Maidstone, Kent, has been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance and is in custody, said Surrey police. He was arrested in connection with an incident at the East Surrey hospital in Redhill on 21 January. A video posted on social media shows a man telling staff that Covid-19 “had not been proven to exist” and telling them he was taking a patient home from the hospital. A medic is seen to inform the mask-less man that the patient is being treated with oxygen, steroids and antibiotics for coronavirus pneumonia affecting both his lungs and warns him that if the oxygen were removed, the patient “will last about half an hour until he dies”. The man is then seen to be removed from the ward by security guards and, when asked why he is not wearing a mask, he claims he is exempt. A second man was also arrested on Thursday on suspicion of assisting an offender and is also in custody, said the force. East Surrey DCI Kimball Edey said the force had received “hundreds of calls from members of the public with information as to his whereabouts”. He added: “We would like to thank both them and the media for their help in tracking him down. “I would also like to thank our colleagues at Kent police, who assisted with the arrests. The man will be interviewed and further updates will be issued in due course.”