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cord-284946-3y16j3ts	Addo, Isaac Yeboah	Double Pandemic: Racial Discrimination amid Corona virus Disease 2019	2020-10-20		.txt	text/plain	5815	254	48	As the UN, human rights institutions, governments, and civil society groups and movements continue to promote greater acceptance of people from different racial categories and encourage greater respect for human rights across the globe, the numerous reports of racial discrimination against non-citizens and people of colour in the fight against the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) demonstrate that more work is needed to achieve the UN's goal of eliminating all forms of racial discrimination. Factors associated with the racial discrimination against non-citizens and people of colour during this pandemic are complex and may include post-colonial perception of racial superiority, fear of COVID-19 infection, 'inflammatory' comments by significant public figures, vengeance for fellow citizens who have experienced abuse elsewhere, and perception of differences in COVID-19 susceptibility due to differences in phenotypic physical features. The racial discrimination associated with the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified existing health vulnerabilities of non-citizens and people of colour [14, 38] .	./cache/cord-284946-3y16j3ts.txt	./txt/cord-284946-3y16j3ts.txt