Misinformation and intensifying fears about the coronavirus triggered violent demonstrations in Ukraine, where protesters attacked buses carrying evacuees from China.
On Thursday, six buses carrying 45 Ukrainians and 27 foreign nationals were brought to a hospital in Novi Sanzhary, a town southeast of the capital city of Kyiv.
The vehicles were eventually able to reach their destination after a tense stand-off, albeit hours later than scheduled.The country's health minister has said that none of the passengers on board the buses were thought to be unwell. "I sympathize with our evacuees, because I already know what it is to be under personal protection, and in them the protection will be much more serious than that of the President," Zelenskiy"But there is another danger that I would like to say. The danger of forgetting that we are all human and we are all Ukrainian. Each of us. Including those who ended up in Wuhan during the epidemic.
Ukraine has no confirmed cases of the coronavirus inside the country. Only two Ukrainian nationals aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Japan were reported to have contracted the virus, and both have since recovered.in a statement published Thursday that the email, which was distributed to the health ministry's entire contact list, originated from outside Ukraine.
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