A London-based actor has spoken out about racism experienced by East Asian communities in the UK, after a stranger told him he might have coronavirus .
Jason Wong, 34, who recently appeared in the 2019 Guy Ritchie film The Gentleman and is featured in the Amazon original series White Dragon, told HuffPost UK how he was racially profiled in a newsagents close to his home in West London on Saturday.
His experience comes after numerous reports of racist verbal and physical attacks against members of East Asian communities living in the UK since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak.
He said: I went into the newsagents and as I walked in I saw him there so stood two metres away. He looked at me and said oh, youre Chinese, stand away from me.
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