UKRAINE CORONAVIRUS RIOT

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Published on February 21, 2020 -
UKRAINE CORONAVIRUS RIOT

UKRAINE CORONAVIRUS RIOT

New?as the death toll from the coron?virus keeps risin?

So do the global fears about its transmission.

In ukrain?

Violent protests flared up as evacuees returned from china and prepared to enter quarantine.

Gwen bau?

Gardner reports from london.

Nats.... (aptn) (track 1)fire and chaos broke out near a village in central ukraine, as crowds lined the street.

Nats....woman shouting (afp video) (track 2) (afp video)they're protesting the arrival of evacuees from china, who are being monitored for the coronavirus at a (reuters) nearby hospital.

Authorities insist the travelers, (afp video) most of them ukrainian, are healthy, and the quarantine is just a (aptn) precaution.

The town is not convinced.

(nats up&..ukrainian// afp)this woman says ''we don't want the evacuees?

Let them be treated somewhere else?

Far away from us!'' (track 3) (throwing stone?

Aptn)as buses with more than 70 evacuees got closer, angry crowds built a roadblock?

(afp video) lighting fires in the street and throwing stones at the vehicles.

(track 4) (aptn)riot police clashed with protesters into the morning hours (afp video) and arrested dozens of people.

(track 5) (reuters)now there's calm outside the medical center, after the ukrainian government (afp video) urged protesters to show empathy.

In an effort to (aptn) reassure the country, ukraine's health minister says she'll join the (reuters) evacuees during their tw?week quarantine.

Gwen baumgardner cbs news london.

The coron?

Virus has infected more than 7?

Thousand people worldwide.

More than 2?

Hundred people have die?mostly in mai?land china.

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