Virus fear sparks subway attack

A woman wearing a face mask in a Lower East Side subway station was beaten by a stranger over coronavirus fears, shocking video shows.

The demented attacker called the victim a “diseased b—-h” in the Grand St. station Sunday, according to a witness.

Shocking cell phone video shows the victim confronting her assailant after the insult.

“Don’t f—-ing touch me!” the man yells as he beats the woman with his umbrella and kicks her multiple times.

“He tries to go away, but he hits her head extremely hard before leaving the station,” said the witness who recorded the attack, who goes by the Facebook handle Jay Jay Eternity. “No one stepped in as she was getting beaten with an umbrella until I pulled him off.”

Before the recording began, the attacker insulted the woman as she sat on a stairwell, calling her a “diseased b—-h,” according to the witness.

The NYPD’s hate crime unit is investigating and asking the victim to come forward.

“My fellow Asian Americans and people who wear masks, please take care,” the witness wrote on Facebook. “Don’t travel alone if it’s possible. Be aware of your surroundings.”

A spokesman for the MTA said they shared the video with the NYPD as soon as they were alerted to it.

“The MTA has no tolerance for bias or hate-based attacks,” spokesman Shams Tarek said. “We recently launched an anti-hate campaign to encourage victims and witnesses to report these crimes, and to encourage tolerance that should minimize such unacceptable conduct in the first place.”