“Even when you go out and take the bus or metro, people start running away from you.”
People wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus walk on a street in Beijing on May 4, 2020.
Authorities in the provincial capital Guangzhou had started mass testing its African community shortly after a cluster of COVID-19 cases was found in a neighbourhood with a large migrant population, and a wave of reports about discrimination and xenophobia followed. Now, businesses and residential compounds “must implement non-discriminatory service… treat all Chinese and foreigners in Guangdong equally, and firmly oppose any racist or discriminatory speech and behaviour,” according to a Sunday report by the state-run China News Service.
They also ban landlords from cancelling housing contracts or increasing rent without explanation. However, the measures do not outline any specific punishments.
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