A man has been arrested after deliberately applying his spit onto a lift's buttons in southern China.

The CCTV video, shot in the city of Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on February 4, shows a woman taking some tissues from a box and throwing them in the lift.

After a while, the woman came back to the lift, followed by three other people.

After they pressed the button, a man spat onto a tissue and then rubbed it onto the buttons repeatedly until they arrived and walked away.

Local police arrested the man and detained him for ten days. The man reportedly did not have any coronavirus symptoms and did not go to Wuhan or met anyone from there in the past 14 days.

2月4日凌晨，广西南宁横县一小区内，一女子在电梯内扯了两张公共纸巾使用后扔在地上，随后又叫来2男1女进入电梯。其中一男子疑似吐口水在纸巾上，然后又擦在电梯按键上。
2月5日， 广西横县公安局发布通报，已传唤涉事嫌疑人姜某辉。姜某辉对自己的违法行为供认不讳。经县人民医院专家组会诊，姜某辉无咳嗽、发热等症状。经调查，姜某辉14天内无外地居住史，无接触湖北（武汉）外地人员。目前警方对姜某辉行政拘留10日处罚。