Violence breaks out in Ukraine due to hospitalization of people flown out of China

Violence breaks out in Ukraine due to hospitalization of people flown out of China
6:32 am: Violence has broken out in Ukraine in protests against the hospitalization of people flown out of China because of the corona virus. Dozens of protesters clashed violently with the police outside the hospital in Nowi Sanzhary on Thursday. The police dissolved crowds of people who had tried to block the access of the buses with the people who had been removed from the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan.

The demonstrators lit several fires and broke at least three panes of the buses. Hundreds of security forces were deployed, a local AFP official said. The six buses with the 72 people who flew out of Wuhan - 45 Ukrainian citizens and 27 foreigners - arrived at the hospital despite the protests, according to videos in the Ukrainian media.

Violence breaks out in Ukraine due to hospitalization of people flown out of China
AFP violent outbreak in Ukraine due to hospitalization of people flown out of China
The flown out are said to spend two weeks in quarantine in the hospital. When examined by Chinese and Ukrainian doctors, none of them showed symptoms of the respiratory disease Covid-19, which is caused by the novel virus. Nevertheless, many people in the 10,000-inhabitant city of Nowi Sanzhary fear that the pathogen could spread there.

Head of state Volodymyr Selenskyj called for solidarity with those who had flown out. "We are all people and Ukrainians," he said. Interior Minister Arsen Awakow went to the site of the protests. "Let's be people who are a little more benevolent and generous," he said.