New York City Councilmember Mark Treyger is calling for the end of anti-Chinese sentiment due to the coronavirus. Due to fears of the coronavirus, there has been a rise in xenophobia against Asians. Treyger called for the end of coronavirus-related hate after a video surfaced of an Asian woman being attacked for allegedly wearing a face mask, reports Radio.com.

“There was a very disturbing video shared, where a woman, an Asian-American woman, that was attacked on a subway station in Chinatown simply because she was Asian-American wearing a mask because she was fearful for her health,” Treyger said.

According to an eyewitness, the video started after the attacker already hit the victim on the head, reports the New York Post. According to Twitter user@x_ginko, the woman with the face mask was sitting at the top of the stairwell in the subway station when a man approached her. The eyewitness heard the man call the woman a “diseased bitch.” The woman told the man to go away but the man got closer and “hit her on the head with an audible sound” before walking away.

That’s when the eyewitness pulled out her smartphone to record what was happening and to get a good shot of the man’s face. However, the woman chased after the man with a “glass bottle” and that’s when the man came back and attacked her.

The eyewitness said the woman had a “bloody lip” and “a slight abrasion on her forehead.”

Treyger noted there was an uptick in hate against Asian-Americans since the coronavirus outbreak even reaching down to schools.

“I’m also hearing anecdotally from some schools that there has been an uptick in anti-Asian American slurs and I’m encouraging parents, school officials, to report every case because bullying of any kind is unacceptable,” he said.

Mark Treyger said that the hate coming from the fear of the virus might be more dangerous than the virus itself.

On Twitter, he said, “Standing with Chinese community leaders and my colleagues today because we will not tolerate rising xenophobia and anti-Asian/anti-Chinese sentiment we’ve seen related to Coronavirus.

“The virus of misinformation is a greater threat than Coronavirus itself.”

Standing with Chinese community leaders and my colleagues today because we will not tolerate rising xenophobia and anti-Asian/anti-Chinese sentiment we've seen related to Coronavirus.



The virus of misinformation is a greater threat than Coronavirus itself.#FactsMatter pic.twitter.com/DIIXSlY9jj — Mark Treyger (@MarkTreyger718) February 6, 2020

There have been no cases of the coronavirus in New York.