Two students from Darjeeling Hills studying at premier institutes here allegedly faced racial taunts liked to coronavirus in separate incidents on city streets.
The abusers probably mistook the students with mongoloid features for nationals of China from where novel coronavirus had spread worldwide. The two, a woman and a man, narrated their ordeal in social media and did not lodge a formal complaint to police.
One of them, a 21-year old woman who is pursuing Masters degree at the Presidency University, shared a video on WhatsApp on Monday, in which she was seen confronting two men who had allegedly uttered 'coronavirus' pointing at her on a central Kolkata street.