New Malden woman describes anti-Asian racism during Covid-19

During its spread across the world, the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought other harmful maladies alongside a snowballing death toll. Looming economic collapse, a heightened mental health crisis and stalling on other urgent issues like the climate emergency are all among the fallout. Another is an apparent increase in racism towards people of East Asian descent after the initial outbreak of the virus in Wuhan, China. Yi-Na is a British New Malden resident of Chinese descent and one of the people to have experienced racist abuse since the advent of coronavirus. In a heartfelt post on a neighbourhood social media…