COVID-19 is certainly not catchy. But I find there's been a lot of casual discrimination towards east Asians living in western society.
A case I noticed last week that was local to me where a Taiwanese market trader was confronted by other traders and told to leave [1]. There's a lot of ignorance around it, people have given themselves a bit of leeway to presume they are infectious. Recent cases in Brighton, UK won't bare the same cautious response towards residents there.
1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51358502