A white man screamed 'go back to China' at Asian shop workers after they asked him to wear a face mask.
The shocking racist rant took place at the T&T supermarket in Mississauga, Canada, earlier this month.
In a video of the incident, the shopper calls Asian staff 'communists' and tells them to 'take coronavirus back to Wuhan'.
The man's racist tirade began with him blaming the store employees for Covid-19.
He said: "Where did we get our Wuhan communist virus? From China, from you guys."
The shopper repeatedly demanded to know where one of the workers was from, prompting them to say 'I am Canadian'.
The white customer then said 'you're as Canadian as my butt'.
He later told staff: "Go back to China where you came from and take your coronavirus back to Wuhan."
Staff members, who were wearing 'proud to be Canadian' shirts, escorted the man out of the store as he ranted about 'these communists' supposedly attacking him and his wife.
During the standoff, he mocked one of the workers for not following the two-metre social distancing rule when telling him to leave.
He also argued he had asthma and would suffer an attack if he wore a mask.
The man added: "You guys can all wear your masks and you can all die and you can all get sick. Because when you wear the mask you get sick. It's science."
A summons has been issued for 48-year-old John McCash, of Mississuaga, for causing a disturbance, the Star reports.
