With COVID-19 spreading across the world at an unprecedented rate, the world can take all the help it gets, especially for face masks that are in grave shortage in hospitals around the world.
We¡¯re seeing tech giants like Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Min-Liang Tan contribute to helping people through this pandemic and next in line is Cupertino giant Apple.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that the trillion-dollar tech brand is donating millions of masks to healthcare professionals in Europe and the US. He said, ¡°Our teams at Apple have been working to help source supplies for healthcare providers fighting COVID-19. We¡¯re donating millions of masks for health professionals in the US and Europe. To every one of the heroes on the front lines, we thank you.¡±
Along with this, Apple has also provided $15 million in the form of donations as well as allowing Apple Card users to skip payments to be made for March, without any interest.?
Bill Gates has also been leaving no stone unturned with the fight against the coronavirus. He pledged $100 million to help in efforts containing the novel coronavirus.?
He has also funded 15,000 medicinal molecules to be shipped to a lab in Belgium to test a potential cure to the novel coronavirus. He also donated Rs 37 crores for at-home testing kits for COVID-19 for people in Washington.
Last week, Alibaba founder Jack Ma donated one million face masks along with 500,000 test kits to the US. He also donated each of the 54 African nations 20,000 testing kits with 100,000 face masks as well as 1000 medical hazmat suits with face shields. In January, he pledged Rs 100 crores for helping scientists develop vaccines for COVID-19.