A woman has been charged with deliberately coughing on a NSW police officer in the state's southwest.
Officers from Riverina Police District were responding to a domestic violence incident on Sunday at a home in the Wagga Wagga suburb of Ashmont.
Police say they arrested a 27-year-old man outside the home before trying to speak with a 24-year-old woman.
The woman allegedly told the man to cough on police and told the officers they were both waiting on results of a COVID-19 test.
Police say the woman then confronted the constable and and coughed deliberately in his face, twice, before letting two large dogs off their leads.
The man was released and the couple was permitted to attend a COVID-19 pop-up clinic for testing.
The officers also underwent COVID-19 testing and subsequently returned negative results.
She was granted conditional bail and is due to appear in Wagga Wagga Local Court on 16 September.
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