More than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents reported since the start of the pandemic, report finds

Anti-Asian incidents in the nation are still occurring by the thousands despite recent movements and legislation aimed at tackling such occurrences. There have been 9,081 anti-Asian incidents reported since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit coalition Stop AAPI Hate.

"The implications are clear: the surge of racism and xenophobia has not abated," the coalition wrote on social media Thursday. "If elected officials continue to scapegoat Chinese people for the spread of the pandemic, things will only get worse." The national data represents self-reported incidents between March 19, 2020, to June 30, 2021. It found that 4,548 incidents occurred in 2020 and that another 4,533 happened in 2021. Out of the total in 2021, there were 2,478 incidents reported between April and June alone.