An anti-Chinese virus was spreading in Vancouver. But data that could have broken infection chains of racism was kept secret

On Thursday, more than four months into British Columbia’s Covid-19 pandemic, officials finally released regionalised data showing that Chinese-majority Richmond – once feared as potential ground zero for the outbreak – was in fact metro Vancouver’s least infected area.Ironically, the goal of withholding the data for so long was to avoid stigmatising certain communities.That may not have worked out so well.I say “ironically” because, in the meantime, incidents of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese…

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