A woman has been found guilty of assault after she intentionally coughed on a grocery store employee in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Campbell River.
The incident happened in April 2020 when provincial health regulations mandated that shoppers stay at least six feet apart from one another, and that grocery stores put a limit on how many customers were inside at a time.
The court heard that when the woman was told an area of the store was off limits because it couldn't accommodate the required space, she said COVID-19 was not real and refused to follow the rules.
When the woman was asked to leave, she stopped, turned around, leaned toward an employee and coughed at her face twice. (CTV Vancouver Island)
