It is now 7 weeks since lockdown started in the UK due to Covid-19, and hate crime has become more prevalent. Sky News have reported that more than 260 offences against Chinese people have been recorded in the first 3 months of 2020. This is more than 3 times the number of cases reported in the previous 2 years (375 hate crimes throughout the whole of 2019, and 360 offences in 2018). These cases have been due to Covid-19 hate crime including assaults, robberies, harassment and criminal damage against Chinese people.
The Metropolitan Police have produced videos to give information that is relevant to all communities about their rights to be protected from hate crime linked to Covid-19. You can view these here in Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Japanese, Somali, Indonesian and Vietnamese. The English version is below:
To report a hate crime related to Covid-19 you can do so safely online here.