{"id":14647,"date":"2020-02-19T04:07:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/chinese-people-uk-targeted-racist-abuse-over-coronavirus-southampton"},"modified":"2020-02-19T04:07:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:07:44","slug":"chinese-people-in-uk-targeted-with-abuse-over-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14647","title":{"rendered":"Chinese people in UK targeted with abuse over coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students and a restaurant worker in Southampton report racist incidents, prompting fears in the community<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/18\/coronavirus-outbreak-updates-coronavirus-live-updates-hubei-deaths-china-wuhan-outbreak-apple-iphone-death-toll-latest-news\">Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A spate of racist incidents linked to the coronavirus outbreak are being investigated by police, prompting fears among members of the Chinese community that they will face abuse if they wear face masks.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese students in Southampton have been targeted with abuse, including one who had a stone thrown at them and told to go back to their \u201cfucking country\u201d, and another who was labelled a \u201cfucking virus\u201d by a passerby because she was wearing a face mask.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/chinese-people-uk-targeted-racist-abuse-over-coronavirus-southampton\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and a restaurant worker in Southampton report racist incidents, prompting fears in the communityCoronavirus outbreak \u2013 live updatesA spate of racist incidents linked to the coronavirus outbreak are being investigated by police, prompting fears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1069,914,512,916,362,299,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-race","category-science","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14648,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions\/14648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}