Bill Gates, Jack Ma and billionaires join hands to fight the Corona pandemic

Tram Ho

In the current Corona crisis, many billionaires and corporations around the world are joining hands with China to fight the disease.

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Plenty of donations from the rich as well as the companies everywhere in the world have been poured into China. In the US, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Bill Gates has announced a $ 10 million contribution to Corona anti-epidemic campaigns in China and Africa. Of that amount, $ 5 million is to develop therapies and vaccines against the disease.

Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma is also believed to contribute 100 million yuan ($ 14 million) to develop the Corona vaccine through his Jack Ma Foundation.

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Ma’s Alibaba Group itself has announced it will set up a 1 billion yuan fund, or $ 144 million, to help hospitals in Wuhan buy equipment needed to prevent the epidemic.

A series of other big companies in China, such as Baidu, Tencent, Huawei, are also racing to make donations or take social support moves against the Corona pandemic.

Large corporations like Baidu, Tencent and ByteDance have spent 800 million yuan (US $ 115 million) to research and develop a cure for the Corona epidemic and coordinate with the government to find a solution to the situation. pandemic today.

Huawei has also contributed to helping Wuhan City build Huoshenshan Hospital field hospital.

Even fashion houses like LVMH and Kering contribute 2.3 million USD and 1 million USD respectively to the campaign to prevent Corona.

“We sympathize with the people affected by the Corona pandemic. So we decided to contribute as a supportive act to the affected people,” said Bering Francois Pinault of Kering.

Anta Sports has also donated 10 million yuan (US $ 1.4 million) to the Chinese Charity Association (CCF), which supplies medical supplies to the Hubei Province epidemic region.

A series of large corporations such as Microsoft, Dell, L’Oreal … have also contributed about 1.4 million USD to the Chinese Red Cross as well as the authorities of Hubei Province to combat Corona.

Apple CEO Tim Cook also posted on social media that he will try to support China to help combat this pandemic.

“Apple will contribute directly to the translation region to assist those affected,” wrote CEO Tim Cook.

 

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Source : Genk