An Asian man visiting a graveyard in Liverpool claims a teenager shouted 'coronavirus' at him.
Dr Terence Heng said he was subject to a racially-motivated slur because of the outbreak earlier this week.
The senior lecturer at University of Liverpool said he was at a graveyard, taking his students on a field trip, when a teenage girl launched a 'random' verbal attack.
In a commentary piece for Channel News Asia, Dr Heng said: "I've lived and worked in Liverpool for two years now. But this week, I received my first rather random, racially-motivated slur.
"I was at a cemetery, taking my students on a field trip, when we encountered a group of teenagers. One started gesturing, and as she walked past, made eye contact and yelled “coronavirus” at me.
"My colleague who was with me was horrified, but I tried to shrug it off.
"Should I have set those young ones straight? Maybe, but the headline “Middle-aged lecturer chased around cemetery by 13-year-old schoolchildren” would not do any favours to my street cred."
This comes after reports of further verbal and physical abuse linked to Covid-19.
Singaporean student Jonathan Mok, 23, said he was set upon by a group of men and a woman as he walked along Oxford Street in central London on Monday February 24.
He said one of the attackers told him: "I don't want your coronavirus in my country".
Following the growing numbers of coronavirus in the UK, the NASUWT teachers' union said reports by its members of abuse, prejudice, xenophobia and racism in schools has increased.
