Buses carrying coronavirus evacuees were met with burning barricades and smashed windows after an email containing misinformation about the illness went viral in Ukraine.

Dozens of protesters blocked the route of six buses carrying 45 Ukrainians and 27 foreign nationals on Thursday as the drivers tried to make their way to a hospital in Novi Sanzhary, a town southeast of Kyiv. The passengers were being brought to the medical center for a two-week quarantine, but a viral email that Ukraine said originated in another country sowed havoc among demonstrators.