There are allegations that Africans in southern China’s largest city have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass COVID-19 testing as the country clamps down on ‘imported infections’.

China claimed it had suppressed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou caused the alleged discrimination by locals and prevention officials.

Local authorities in the industrial centre of 15 million said at least eight people diagnosed with the illness had spent time in the city’s Yuexiu district, known as “Little Africa”.

Five of them were Nigerians who faced widespread anger after reports surfaced that they had broken a mandatory quarantine and been to eight restaurants and other public places instead of staying home.

As a result, all the people they came into contact with (about 2000 of them) had to be tested for COVID-19 or undergo quarantine, state media said.

Guangzhou had confirmed 114 imported COVID-19 cases as of Thursday – 16 of which were Africans, while the rest were returning Chinese nationals.

This development has led to Africans becoming targets of suspicion, distrust and racism in China.

AFP reported several Africans saying they had been forcibly evicted from their homes and turned away by hotels, but said the Police in Guangzhou

Read full details below:
https://judicialsketch.com/2020/04/12/china-turns-against-africans-in-covid-19-crackdown/

God's eyes

*Yimu*

Don't they say "charity begins at home"?

The same Chinese dt refuses to attend to less than 10k Nigerians in China are d same Chinese we expect to treat 200million Nigerians in Nigeria?

The report says rather than observe the mandatory period of quarantine, they broke it and went into town visiting restaurants and other public place in a country like China that is on overdrive to stem the spread of the disease and a resurgent.
People should realize that the pandemic is a serious one and China will not take nonsense, not less from Africans who no one seems to have any form of respect for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFxoS_tLw0s


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