translated from Spanish: Campaign against discrimination against the Chinese population for the coronavirus

The La Liga match facing Barca and Getafe on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Camp Nou, will be preceded by a solidarity action promoted by FC Barcelona with which the Club wants to show its support and solidarity with the Chinese people for the coronaviru crisis s. An action in which Getafe has also been involved, and in which players from the two teams will jump on the pitch accompanied by children of Chinese origin to morally support the Asian country in the face of the severe health crisis looming in the Far East as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19). The minors, belonging to the rock “Dracs Units Xinesos pel Barca”, will wear a T-shirt with the message “Stronger Together” and with the writing in Chinese, meaning ‘Ánimos China’, FC Barcelona reported. In the middle of the countryside, Barcelona will have a tarpaulin with the same motto written in English and Chinese. CoVID-19 affectation is wreaking havoc in China, and more specifically in Hubei Province and its capital, Wuhan, where the majority of infected (about 60,000) and killed by the virus (about 1,300) have been detected. Although in the rest of the world the affectation is residual, prevention measures and some panic have led some agencies to cancel events, such as the fourth test of the F1 World Cup, to be held in China, or even in Spain , the suspension this year of the World Mobile Congress, in Barcelona.” The club wants to send a message against the stigma and discrimination that the Chinese population has been suffering since the appearance of the coronavirus. The fight against social exclusion and discrimination is one of the lines of action of the Barca Foundation and in cases like this, the objective is, above all, to raise awareness against discrimination against people on the basis of their origin”, the Catalan entity noted in a statement.

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