Sky News revealed at least 267 hate crimes were recorded against Chinese people in three months in 2020 amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott called on ministers to condemn hate crimes against the UK's Chinese community"unreservedly"."All forms of racism are unacceptable. [I] would like to hear ministers condemn it unreservedly."
In response to a parliamentary question, policing minister Kit Malthouse said the government does not know how many anti-Chinese hate crimes are committed in the UK because"information is not routinely collected on the ethnicity of victims", according to the Lib Dems.
The coronavirus outbreak started in China, with the first case reported in Wuhan in Hubei province in December. The first documented cases in the UK came in February, and the virus has now been linked to more than 29,000 deaths across the country. Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, the national policing lead for hate crime, told Sky News that"no one is responsible for the outbreak and everyone has a right to be protected from targeted abuse".
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