Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised to extricate a young woman who refused to board an evacuation flight out of virus-hit China without her small dog.
Anastasiya Zinchenko, a 22-year-old model, was due to fly out Thursday with a group of 72 Ukrainians and other nationals from the city of Wuhan, the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
“We won’t leave you there. I wanted to phone you personally, because for me this is very important,” Zelensky said in a phone call to Zinchenko, a recording of which she posted on Instagram.Ukraine so far has no confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, which has killed more than 2,000 people and infected over 74,000, mostly in China.
As rumours and panic spread, locals blocked roads and threw stones at buses as evacuees were taken to a medical facility in the central Poltava region.Zelensky’s spokeswoman confirmed the president had called Zinchenko “to calm her down.”
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