KenyaĪ video reportedly recorded in Kibera, Kenya in March 2020 shows an angry crowd threatening a man and a woman of East Asian descent about the coronavirus. The Foreign Correspondents Association of Ethiopia had warned that "dangerous rumours" and "vicious posts" were being spread on the internet about foreign journalists, while other foreigners had been physically attacked. Violence towards foreigners has been reported amidst the pandemic, with some locals attacking foreigners on social media by publishing photos of them and linking them to the coronavirus. Some Egyptians visited the Chinese man in his hotel and expressed an apology to him for the incident, widely condemned in the local media as an act of bullying and racism. The incident has sparked outrage among Egyptians after the video was uploaded.
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In the video, a voice is heard in the video jokingly shouting "The first coronavirus case in Egypt!" and the same voice then tells the driver "May God support you, Hajji! Throw him out!". On 10 March 2020, an Uber driver was arrested after a viral video showing the driver forcibly removing his Chinese passenger at a highway in Cairo's Maadi district on suspicion of having the virus. EgyptĪccording to the Embassy of Japan in Cairo, store clerks had been hesitating to serve Japanese customers, and "corona" had become a new slur with which to abuse Japanese people on the street.
Some residents of Cameroon thought that Europeans and Americans brought COVID to Africa. verbal and online harassment, stone throwing, and banging on vehicles occupied by expatriates". The US embassy in Yaoundé issued a travel warning to US citizens amid reports of ". This racism and xenophobia was criticised by some foreign governments, diplomatic corps, and the Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe.
In China, some people of African descent were evicted from their homes and told to leave China within 24 hours, due to disinformation that they and other foreigners were spreading the virus. Racism and xenophobia towards southern and south east Asians increased in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. As of late April 2020, Paris had seen riots break out over police treatment of marginalised ethnic groups during the then in-place lockdown. Discrimination against Muslims in India escalated after public health authorities identified an Islamic missionary ( Tablighi Jamaat) group's gathering in New Delhi in early March 2020 as a source of spread.
įollowing the progression of the outbreak to new hotspot countries, people from Italy (the first country in Europe to experience a serious outbreak of COVID-19) were also subjected to suspicion and xenophobia, as were people from hotspots in other countries. However, even after the majority of politicians had switched to avoiding stigmatizing language when referring to the virus, a minority continued. The journal Nature later published an apology for this type of coverage. In early coverage of the outbreak, some news sources associated the virus with China in a manner that contributed to stigma.
In accordance with this policy, the WHO recommended the official name "COVID-19" in February 2020. In the past, many diseases have been named after geographical locations, such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Zika virus, but in 2015, the World Health Organization introduced recommendations to avoid this practice, to reduce stigma.
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