Some see the coronavirus as a global pandemic.

Others view it as an opportunity.

A teen in the United Kingdom was suspended from Dixons Unity Academy in Leeds on Wednesday for taking advantage of the public scare over the virus by selling individual squirts of hand sanitizer to his classmates for about 64 cents a shot, USA Today reports.

Jenny Tompkins, the teen’s mother, explained what happened on Facebook.

“This is a picture of my teenage son just getting in from school. Why is he getting in from school at 10:53am you ask? Schools don’t finish up until 3pm,” she wrote.

“Well the little turd has just been expelled from school for the day after being caught charging students 50p a squirt for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the bloody corona virus!” Tompkins posted. “Very hard to discipline this behavior when his dad phones him from work to call him a f**king legend.”

Thompkins said her son made over $11 from his endeavor.

“He bought a multipack of Doritos and saving the rest to buy a kebab later,” she wrote.

On Thursday, New York City schools confirmed the first case of a student testing positive for the coronavirus, with officials there and elsewhere shutting down classes over the public health scare.

“This morning, we are closing two co-located schools, the Laboratory School of Finance and Technology and South Bronx Preparatory: A College Board School, due to a student’s self-confirmed positive case of COVID-19,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement cited by the New York Post.

Schools across the country are suspending classes for days or weeks to sanitize buildings and facilities, and develop response plans as the virus continues to spread, infecting at least 1,282 people in 44 states and Washington, D.C. as of Thursday, according to The New York Times.

Over three dozen patients have died.

The top states with the most confirmed cases include Washington, New York, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, and Nebraska and New Jersey, though confirmed cases are increasing rapidly.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced the government will ban foreign travelers from most of Europe for a month in an attempt to contain the disease, while the NBA announced it is suspending the remainder of the 2020 season after a player tested positive, NBC News reports.