3 Feb 2020

‘Man at Tube station said to me: You didn’t bring virus from China, I hope’ – Chinese citizen Sylvia Wu

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One unpleasant repercussion of the global fear of the coronavirus has been a growing number of racist incidents experienced by Chinese and other Asian people, including here in the UK.

One unpleasant repercussion of the global fear of the coronavirus has been a growing number of racist incidents experienced by Chinese and other Asian people, including here in the UK.

Sylvia Wu, a Chinese citizen working in London, and Jessie Lau, a Hong Kong freelance journalist formerly based in Beijing, currently researching the coronavirus outbreak for Channel 4 News, talk about their experience in the UK since the outbreak.