Dominicans met with hostility as they arrive for 15-day quarantine in Ukraine. Five Dominican students arrived in good health to Ukraine after being evacuated from Wuhan, China. News media, nevertheless, reports that the local residents in the village of Novi Sanzhary were not happy about the transitory keeping of the foreigners, in their transit to the Dominican Republic. The Dominicans were part of a flight of 70 people that arrived on 20 February 2020 and were taken by bus to a local sanitarium where they would be quarantined. As reported, protestors tried to block the road and even hurled stones at the buses.
More than 10 people were detained, and Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov personally visited the site of the protests to try to calm the crowd down.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tried to reassure people that the quarantined evacuees wouldn’t pose any danger to local residents.
In a statement published on his Facebook page, Zelenskiy said the people evacuated from China are healthy and will live in a closed medical center run by the National Guard in the village as a precaution. “In the next two weeks it will probably be the most guarded facility in the country,” Zelenskiy said.
Five Dominicans were part of the group of 27 foreign nationals that took off from Wuhan; the other 22 were from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama and other countries. The other 45 on the flight were Ukrainians. .
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24 February 2020