Chinese People Face Harassment, Racial Attacks In Australia: Reports

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread in different parts of the world, several instances of racial attacks against Chinese people are surfacing. Australia is now reported to be seeing an increase in such attacks.

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Sydney: As the novel coronavirus continues to spread in different parts of the world, several instances of racial attacks against Chinese people are surfacing. Australia is now reported to be seeing an increase in such attacks as people from China & locals of Chinese origin, are being harassed, targeted and being blamed for spreading the Covid-19. Recently, a newspaper in Sydney published a story where a white man was reported to be shouting "Death to communism ... You all have sent 5 million people all over the world and spread this disease deliberately." He followed his attack at Chinese people by hurling racial abuses at them. He also threatened to kill the Chinese secretary and followed to say that he will "put a bullet on the head of the Chinese leader." In another instance, two Australian sisters of Vietnamese origin were racially abused by two local girls on the streets. They spat on the Vietnamese girls after assuming them to be Chinese. According to local media, they have been arrested and the police have registered a case against them. After that, in Melbourne Metro, two Chinese people were attacked by a lady and her daughter. They punched one of them in the face and hurled abuses at them. Another case being reported happened on the streets of Queensland, where a South Korean woman was attacked by a group of men. The group judged them on the basis of their look and assumed that they were from China. As per local media, a miscreant had also written "Death to dog eaters" on the walls in the city. With such cases of racism being reported, it is important to remember that the claims of Covid-19 being a biological attack by China are completely baseless and false, and that racial attacks are condemn-able at any given point.