A man has been Tasered after deliberately coughing over police and claiming he had coronavirus. The suspect walked up to officers sat in a car in Haringey, north London, before shouting that he had the deadly disease and deliberately coughing saliva all over them.
He then began to physically attack them, officers said, before he was Tasered and arrested. The suspect was later tested for the virus and found not to have it.
He was not hurt during the incident. The public has been warned that using Covid-19 as a threat against emergency workers would be treated as a crime and could lead to imprisonment.
MPS Firearms Command tweeted yesterday: "A male was tasered by #SCO19 officers yesterday in the @MPSHaringey area, when he approached their