Mok said his face was "ridiculous and bloody" due to the youth's raw punch, which made him "dazed and shocked".
Thursday, June 11, 2020
UPDATimes - A student from Singapore said he was beaten by a group of men who told him, "I don't want your coronary virus in my country."
Jonathan Mok, who is 23 years old, said he was walking on Oxford Street, in central London, England, last Monday when he heard the cry "corona virus".
When he confronted the four men, he said, they suddenly showered him with blows which made him seriously injured.
London Police said it treated the attack as a "painful racial attack".
However, no one was arrested in this case.
Mok, a University College London student, uploaded his injured photos to his Facebook page and was widely distributed.
He claimed to have been attacked around 21.15 GMT near Tottenham Court Road station, London.
In a photo caption, Mok wrote: "Suddenly, the first punch was struck in my face and surprised me."
Mok said his face was "ridiculous and bloody" due to the youth's raw punch, which made him "dazed and shocked".
He said the corona virus outbreak was used by a number of people as an excuse to "further spread hatred towards people who were different from them".
"I just think that my experience has tainted the image of this beautiful city with so many good people," Mok added.
The treatment of racism in France and Canada
Earlier, in late January, residents of Chinese descent in France and Canada said they experienced racist treatment amid the outbreak of the corona virus.
In France they use the hashtag JeNeSuisPasUnVirus (I'm not a virus) on social media, whereas in Canada, online attacks have appeared on Chinese restaurants there.
Racist sentiments against citizens of Chinese descent have been reported in several countries, including France and Canada.
In France, residents of Chinese descent were angry when the local newspaper Le Courier Picard posted headlines "Alerte jaune" (Yellow Alert) and "Le péril jaune?" (Yellow Danger?), With photos of Chinese women wearing protective masks.
The newspaper hurriedly apologized, stating they did not intend to use "Asia's bad stereotypes".
Meanwhile in Canada, at the end of January, some media reported racial sentiments towards the Chinese people there, especially in the city of Toronto.
Twitter users from Toronto, Terry Chu, and several other mothers worry about the "inevitable wave of racism" as the corona virus spreads.
In York, a suburb of Toronto, a number of students' parents circulated and signed an online petition asking students who had just returned from China in the last 17 days to be prohibited from going to school.
Racist sentiments against the Chinese have happened in Canada following the SARS outbreak in 2003.
When panic broke out due to the plague, many Chinese businesses in Canada experienced a slump in income.
Corona virus cases in the UK soared
The UK reported a surge in cases of corona virus infection, after two patients who were treated in a positive hospital were infected, bringing the total to 90.
British health official Professor Chris Whitty said that almost all of the 36 patients who had recently traveled to countries were affected or were infected by others who had traveled.
But it is not yet known exactly how these three new patients in the UK have a virus.
At the same time, King's College Hospital, London, also reported two of his patients who had contracted the virus.
One of the relatives of an elderly patient at a south London hospital told the BBC one of those infected lived in the same room as a relative before being diagnosed.
The hospital said it had limited staff and visiting visitors to the infected patients' treatment rooms, and was tracking those who might have been in contact with infected patients.
Of the 87 cases in England, 80 of them occurred in England, three in Scotland, one in Wales and three in Northern Ireland.
The two most recent patients are Scottish, one lives in the Grampian area and the other in Ayrshire.
One patient recently traveled to northern Italy, while another patient made contact with someone who was positive for the virus.
New cases of the virus in the UK have been confirmed in Liverpool, York, Carlisle, Newcastle, Torquay and Manchester, as well as in Lancashire and Derbyshire.
In Northern Ireland, a graduate student at Queen's University, who had just returned from northern Italy and mingled with fellow students, tested positive for the virus.
Meanwhile, students at London's Goldsmiths University were told that someone infected with the corona virus visited the campus dormitory.
In its e-mail, the university said the person was "treated" and the students visited also "isolated themselves as a precautionary measure".
Buckingham University and London University postponed graduation events to minimize the spread of the virus.
Whitty, who previously called the "possibility" of an epidemic in the UK, said people who had been in contact with new patients were being tracked.
In the "worst case scenario", up to 80% of the UK population can be infected with the corona virus, which causes Covid-19 disease, he said.
But he said the move to isolate all cities in Britain was "very unlikely".
The UK has also launched a health campaign that encourages people to wash their hands regularly for at least 20 seconds.
Secretary of Health Matt Hancock said washing hands regularly was "the single most important thing people can do".
The British Health Agency recommends using hand sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol if soap and water are not available. They also suggested that washing hands is very important after traveling by public transportation.
Earlier on Wednesday (04/03), Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced an emergency law that allowed workers to get sick pay when they were not working to help control the virus.
Johnson told the Lower House that people who isolate themselves "must be paid for doing the right thing".
The government says one fifth of workers may take sick leave during the height of the corona virus epidemic in the UK.
Around 90,000 people have been infected globally since the outbreak of the corona virus in Hubei Province, China, in December.
Last week, a British man who contracted the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Japan became the first British citizen to die from the corona virus.
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