As per the latest reports a hotel worker in Nelson, B.C. suffered a heart attack shortly after having a confrontation with a patron who refused to wear a mask and did not even agree to leave the hotel’s coffee shop.

The manager of The Adventure Hotel, Rob Little said that it happened last Friday when their accountant was called to help deal with a man who was supposedly screaming and ignoring all the new provincial rules to wear a mask required to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

According to Little, when the woman intervened the man reportedly spat on her and walked away. The police were informed and Little said that in about ninety minutes the accountant who was in her 50s collapsed from a heart attack that required her to be immediately transferred to a hospital in Kelowna.

The Nelson police stated that the man has been taken into custody and has been banned from the coffee shop pending a court appearance on an assault charge, while the officers are trying to determine if there is any connection between the spitting incident and the woman’s heart attack.

Little further stated that his co-worker is however conscious and can speak with the family but remains in the intensive care fighting for her life, he added.

He also said that polarizing views about wearing masks during the pandemic is certainly disappointing and frustrating, especially in the usually laid-back and friendly city of Nelson.

Little also said that they are already dealing with so much with what is going on around, and that this is just adding fuel to a fire that doesn’t needs to be there.

It was announced by B.C. last week that masks are now mandatory in all public spaces and solicitor general Mike Farnworth has unveiled new penalties on Tuesday for anyone who would ignore the order.

The violators are reportedly subjected to a $230 fine although anyone unable to put on or remove a mask with any assistance is exempt from the new rules.