Anti-Asian hate crime has risen as a result of the pandemic and associations between Covid and the site of its first outbreak in Wuhan, China. President Biden signed a hate crimes law designed to protect Asian Americans last month after the increase in incidents. You can also listen to The Jab, our podcast on the race between injections and infections, and find trackers showing the global roll-out of vaccines, excess deaths by country and the viruss spread across Europe and America. As for the desire to avoid hurt feelings, some may consider it oversensitivity. US anti-extremist groups said a rise in attacks on Asian-Americans was partly down to Donald Trump, who referred to Covid-19 as the China virus.Trumps successor as president, Joe Biden, signed a hate crimes law this month to protect those who have suffered a surge in attacks during the pandemic.
The Crime anti-Donald Trump Act was enacted three months after the first outbreak.
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