COVID-19: China accuses Africans staying in their country of the virus; evicts them from their hotels and apartments, leaving them stranded

According to the BBC, hundreds of Africans staying in China’s southern city of Guangzhou have been evicted from hotels and apartments amidst Coronavirus scare.

These Africans see the act is pure discrimination and abuse.

“They are accusing us of having the virus,” said Tobenna Victor, a Nigerian student in Guangzhou.

“We paid rent to them and after collecting rent they chased us out of the house. Since last night we have been sleeping outside.

“They came to my house. They told me to wait after 24 hours for the result, [but] after 24 hours nobody contacted me,” said businessman Lunde Okulunge Isidore, from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Some residents have told the BBC that they have been evicted from their apartments, others say that they have been put into forced quarantine without knowing the results of their tests.

On Tuesday, Chinese officials denied online rumors that the virus was spreading in African communities and that parts of the city where Africans reside were under lockdown.

Guangzhou is home to one of China’s largest African communities and has become a hub for African traders buying and selling goods to the continent.

There are rising concerns in China over the increase in the number of imported COVID-19 cases, which authorities fear could fuel a second outbreak.

Since March, Guangzhou has required people arriving from abroad to be quarantined for 14 days.

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