Lost star Daniel Dae Kim has lashed out at the “senseless” anti-Asian racism that’s increased in the wake of coronavirus, after revealing he tested positive for the illness.
Randomly beating elderly, sometimes homeless Asian-Americans is cowardly, heartbreaking and it’s inexcusable.” Reacting to Trump’s decision to refer to the illness as “the Chinese virus”, Kim, 51, said: “Yes, I’m Asian.
But I did not get it from China, I got it in America.
Other famous figures to have contracted the illness include Tom Hanks, his wife Rita Wilson and Idris Elba, who has hinted he caught it from Justin Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.