Coronavirus racism: Go back to China, attacker said, as he punched indigenous Vancouver woman who sneezed

Dakota Holmes says she was walking her dog, Kato, through Gray’s Park on Vancouver’s Eastside at about 8.30pm on Friday evening when she sneezed.She said she had just passed a man, who wheeled around and began berating her about Covid-19, yelling at her to “go back to China”. As the abuse escalated – “very negative comments [about] the coronavirus … go home, you don’t belong here” – the man punched her in the head twice, knocking her to the ground.Holmes, 27, is an indigenous Canadian.“I’ve…

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