Many people of Chinese ancestry living in Australia have said they have faced an increased wave of racism, both in person and on social media, since the coronavirus outbreak. “He stuck out his hand and then made a joke, ‘I probably shouldn’t shake your hand because you might have coronavirus’. “Re: racism and #coronavirus - This is the first time I’ve ever felt physically unsafe in Australia because of my race,” she wrote on Tuesday. “I thought we were over this shit but obviously not.”Re: racism and #coronavirus - This is the first time I’ve ever felt physically unsafe in Australia because of my race. The amount of racism I’ve witnessed in Australia towards Asian people because of the coronavirus is criminal.

Source: Huffington Post January 31, 2020 06:27 UTC