A radio station in the Netherlands has been forced to apologise after it played a parody song about coronavirus that encouraged listeners to avoid Chinese food as it might be spreading the disease.
The song called ‘Prevention is better than Chinese’, which has reportedly been played at Dutch carnivals and is by the artist ‘Toon’ was played on the ‘Late with Lex‘ show on Radio 10 last week and features lyrics blaming Chinese people for the virus.
Rough translations of the song appear to indicate that the song contained lyrics that said: We don’t need the virus in our country, it is all caused by these stinking Chinese people. and It will be in the fried rice soon. Don’t eat Chinese food.
Lex Gaarthuis, the DJ who played the song has also issued a personal apology, explaining that the song should have never been played and there was no intention to spread ‘racism or hate against anyone.’