This is discrimination. ‘Africans in one of China’s big cities say they are targets After peaking at COVID-19

Jay has in his apartment in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou from April 9, when a doctor, a local official and a translator delivered a mandatory quarantine blocked by COVID-19 pandemic. The order came despite the fact that he has not traveled in three months, is showing no symptoms of the disease, and did not, which was positive in touch with everyone. The English teacher who comes from South Africa, check his temperature every day and sending measurements for his landlord. A camera in the hallway of his building newly installed points to her door to make sure they did not leave. “When I asked my landlord because I said, I said, this is what the government wanted. All Africans should be isolated at home ‘,” says Jay to go to a pseudonym asked because of He fears that he could be deported. There is only one way that Jay and other African immigrants say they were discriminated against by the local authorities, after a peak of 19 cases of imported COVID-Guangzhou. Six Africans in Guangzhou, the time has spoken say they were quarantined, although no holiday history or other risk factors. Some had to keep the magnetic stripe and alarms installed on their doors to leave. Mrs A, a Ugandan woman who asked only in their jobs for fear of reprisals from the first to be identified, said she and her four fellow Ugandans were taken to a quarantine hotel, where almost were charged $500 each. “The quarantine OK if they do the right thing,” he says. “But it is discrimination.” Video popular online appear to show the Africans, some supermarkets and restaurants are prevented from entering. shot in a video on a McDonalds, a worker holding a sign that black people say it can not happen. , Reading (The company apologized later) more :. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa: As African countries work together Corona The US State Department to combat weighed, as well as a notification on Saturday exhibition to avoid consulting the Guangzhou travel African Americans may be that concern for quarantine It targeted by local officials. According to the statement, some service local companies had refused to African-Americans. The increase in hostilities The increase in reported discrimination coming to its condemnation of racist attacks China’s ethnic Chinese all over the world as the Crown has spread. It also follows the Beijing attempts a second wave of infections department after the initial outbreak of fighting back, even the reopening of Wuhan, the city where the outbreak was first reported to be imported on April 8 The majority of officially reported cases now in China, mainly Chinese house after all foreigners from the end of March were forbidden entry. , A shopping center and the production of 13 million formerly known as Canton Guangzhou during the colonial period, the house is one of the largest populations in Asia to sell them cheap to buy many African-electronics and home clothing retailers involved . At least 15,000 members from Africa live in cities, according to official data. But the researchers say thousands more are believed to be there illegally. racial tensions have occasionally flared in the city, although communities of African Guangzhou is generally well received. However, many Africans say they are facing a wave of hostility and that spread by rumors on social media, the crown. Stay up to date on the growing threat to global health, by signing up for our daily newsletter crown. Gordon Mathews, an anthropology professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the time spent with African communities in Guangzhou, saying the Africans in the face of the city-discrimination on a day to day basis. He says he has found that even those who have lived for years in Guangzhou little attachment to the city. “I am very rare Guangzhou as a second home,” says Mathews. “Like I said, it’s a good place to make a living, but not to make a living.” Reports of increased surveillance of African appeared after the story of a Nigerian man to start a nurse reported that bite tried leaving him to stop a local hospital. “It was Guangzhou colonized by Africans” The story has been widely circulated on Chinese social media site Weibo and has attracted a number of xenophobic comments, including Read more Feared African countries, which are: Few doctors, fewer helpless fans inevitable dissemination of health local Crown officials said Monday that 4,500 Africans have been tested since April Corona 4 and 111 were confirmed positive. As of Wednesday, there have been 494 confirmed cases of the crown in Guangzhou, after the Health Commission of Guangdong. Guangzhou Mayor Wen Guohui said at a press conference on Sunday that “foreigners are not against against COVID 19 are at a disadvantage in the fight.” Some local residents lead efforts to support the African community. In a private group of WeChat, a Chinese app messaging, about 250 members of official documents and news are translated to help African residents. They also coordinate food donations and deliver them, and have collected a list of hotels, to accept the Africans. And on Twitter as the microblogging platform Weibo, some left comments must defend African and racist behavior be condemned. “The discrimination index is stupidity and ignorance,” said one. Yet to read a sentence: “China has no way a group of people with a serious problem of discrimination. [I] embarrassing.” Things have changed ‘The reports from Guangzhou cause diplomatic problems for China. Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana is one of the countries that have established their Chinese Ambassador to discrimination reported in protest. The Commission of the African Union, representing 55 Member States, expressed in Guangzhou “to accusations of mistreatment of African extreme concern”. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the authorities were in Guangdong “improve measures” and “gradually raise Health Management [restrictions] to African citizens.” The ministry added that the measures were based some “principle of non-discrimination.” Africans say that racial tensions renewed realize that in Guangzhou can no longer be kept alive, even after this suggestion goes crown. “I do not think that people start to taste and be friendly with you as fast quarantine has been done,” says Jay. He admits that he says is always a hint of discrimination, but now “things have changed.” It should be extended because of his position teaching at the end of the year, but that does not include already. “I saw how the wild xenophobia has somehow slipped in Guangzhou,” he says. But not everyone can go-and many are dependent on opportunities for Guangzhou to pack their families to return home. Tanzo who asked to go by his nickname, is in Guangzhou three times a year. The 37-year-old trader from Uganda spends a month or two into town whenever the children’s shoes to buy again to send home. Tanzo traveled in late February in Guangzhou, and went to a 7-Eleven near his hotel shortly after their arrival. When opening the door, he has reached two workers waved their hands and shook his head. One ran to the door and locked it. Tanzo got the message and resigned job then opened the door and hosed down, the door handle, and the area in which Tanzo was stopped. Other shops also tried she said she was not allowed to enter. He returned to his hotel empty-handed. Stunned, he called his friend Ugandan who lives in the city. “I asked her what happens to Guangzhou?’Re treating me like I’m the one who brought the disease!” Said Tanzo. “My friend told me, ‘This is the way they do now.” “Please send tips, leads and stories from the front [email protected].
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