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Community Infection
Outlook
|April 20, 2020
In Assam’s capital Guwahati, some men taunted three nurses from Manipur by calling them “coronavirus”.
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Two apparently similar incidents took place in two corners of India in a span of two days. Just one made big news. A woman from a Northeast state was spat at by a man in Mumbai in what was apparently a racist act. He allegedly called her “corona” in reference to her Mongoloid features. It can be safely presumed that he read into her looks a connection to China, where the global pandemic currently ravaging the world originated. The incident was widely reported, Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray said such acts will not be tolerated, the police registered a case and the National Commission for Women began its own investigation.
This story is from the April 20, 2020 edition of Outlook.
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