A combination of online misinformation and intensifying fears about the coronavirus has triggered violent demonstrations in Ukraine.
Dozens of protesters sought to block the route of the buses, hurling stones at the convoy while engaging in violent clashes with the police.
A demonstrator throws a stone towards a police van during a protest against the arrival of a plane carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China's Hubei province in the village of Novi Sanzhary in Poltava region, Ukraine February 20, 2020. Local residents blocked the road leading to a sanatorium where the evacuees are due to be held in quarantine for at least two weeks.
Demonstrators line up in front of Ukrainian law enforcement officers in the village of Novi Sanzhary in Poltava region, Ukraine February 20, 2020.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called for calm, urging citizens to show empathy to the evacuees. 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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