'Enemies of the people': Coronavirus evacuees endure hostile return to Ukraine


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  • Saturday, 22 Feb 2020

People wait to check in at the airport in Wuhan, China February 20, 2020 in this picture obtained by Reuters from social media on February 21, 2020. INSTAGRAM/@JULIA_VOLOK via REUTERS

KIEV (Reuters) - Julia Volok says some of her fellow passengers expected a warm welcome on their arrival in Ukraine after finally being evacuated from the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic in China's Hubei province this week.

Instead Volok, a 26-year-old Chinese-language student, and her fellow evacuees found their buses being pelted with projectiles by protesters on Thursday as they approached the sanatorium where they have started a mandatory two-week quarantine.

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