In a sign of the growing fears over the spread of coronavirus, two train passengers in Sydney have got into a verbal stoush after a female commuter coughed on a male passenger.

Seated facing each other on the train, the woman appeared to cough on the man, who took exception to her not covering her mouth.

In the angry exchange caught in vision shared by ABC reporter Andy Park on Monday, the woman defended her actions.

“I did not open my mouth when I coughed, I coughed inside my mouth,” she said after he confronted her.

“That’s disgusting” he says, before she retorts “well, you’re disgusting too” before then appearing to deliberately cough again in his direction.

“Are you serious. Did you cough at me?” he asks.

“Yeah”, she says. “I don’t have a pandemic.”

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The man, visibly angry, says he asked her politely to cover her mouth and that the advice from doctors was to cover your mouth when you cough.

The run-in comes after extraordinary vision of people sparring over toilet paper in supermarket aisles emerged over the weekend.

Two women have been charged with affray after a fight over toilet paper broke out at a Sydney supermarket.

A video of the incident went viral on social media and showed a group of women pushing, yelling and fighting over a jumbo packet of toilet paper amid panic buying caused by the coronavirus.

Play Video Three women were been brawling over toilet paper at a Sydney supermarket. Three women were been brawling over toilet paper at a Sydney supermarket.

In Melbourne, Coles shoppers stepped in to break up an ugly scrap between two women over the final packet of toilet paper.

The footage, filmed by TikTok user @jamiezhu, shows a woman with a trolley filled with toilet paper in a tussle with another woman over the packet.

“I was here first,” she declared as the women faced off over the prized commodity.