Amid the social, emotional, mental and economic effects that have impacted hundreds of millions of people around the world caused by the coronavirus, Asian people are also dealing with an evergreen threat to minorities in times of crisis: xenophobia.
Reports of harassment as well as racist and violent attacks against Asians have increased since the virus has spread, and the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council launched a site to track the discriminatory incidents.
As of March 26, the STOP AAPI HATE reporting center has received 673 reports of coronavirus discrimination from Asian Americans across the country, according to the Chinese for Affirmative Action coalition.