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Toronto Chinese community’s efforts to contain coronavirus overshadowed by stigma: research

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Shomporko Desk:-TORONTO – The early efforts by the Chinese community in Toronto to control the spread of coronavirus toward the start of the year was to a great extent eclipsed by stigma and Sinophobia at the time, as per new research.

The York University research project, which was subsidized by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, meant to look at the segregation and criticism of the Chinese community in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aida Mamuji, a teacher in the disaster management department at York University who led the research, said they conducted interviews with many people from the Chinese diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and in Nairobi, Kenya so as to find out about their lived experiences during the beginning of the crisis.

Mamuji said they learned that in January and February, as news of the virus’ spread in China and other countries first arrived in Canada, members of the Chinese community in the GTA were already taking precautions, such as mask-wearing and physical distancing, long before those measures became mandatory anywhere in the country.

She listed further examples, such as the cancellation of numerous Chinese New Year festivities, restaurant owners in Chinatown requiring their employees to undergo temperature checks as early as January, and those who had travelled to China voluntarily self-quarantining when they arrived home.

“There are so many examples that we really need to focus on because the Chinese community, in fact, helped us cope with COVID-19,” she told CTV’s Your Morning on Wednesday. “You can only wonder where our numbers would be had they not taken those measures so early on.”

These efforts were largely unnoticed, according to Mamuji, because of Sinophobia and misplaced blame for the disease on the Chinese community.

In Nairobi, where there’s a large Chinese diaspora, Mamuji said researchers discovered the fear of stigma was so great during the pandemic that individuals from the Chinese community were seeking out Chinese medicine for care instead of visiting public health-care facilities.

Mamuji said the information they collected for the project will be shared with emergency management professionals so it can be used to develop culturally-specific public education and de-stigmatization campaigns to counter misinformation and stigma against certain groups in the future.

“We really need to work together to address these issues of stigma, especially during a pandemic, because ultimately what it does is it does exasperate the spread of the disease,” she said.

Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

News source: CTV News

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