After Giving 6 Month Salary To Employees, Facebook Donates Over 7 Lakh Masks To Hospitals
Tech billionaires around the world have done their part to helping medical practitioners to equip them with the necessary artillery for their fight against COVID-19, and now Facebook has joined the ranks.
With COVID-19 spreading across the world at an unprecedented rate, medical authorities are taking all help they can get to fight this novel coronavirus.
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Tech billionaires around the world have done their part to helping medical practitioners to equip them with the necessary artillery for their fight against COVID-19, and now Facebook has joined the ranks.
The social media giant has revealed that it will be contributing its supply of 720,000 respiratory masks as well as 1.5 million pair of gloves to the healthcare workers in the US.
Moreover, it also has mentioned that it is looking to procure millions of masks more to overcome the shortage that is being experienced in the world today.
Zuckerberg said in a statement, ¡°Health workers urgently need more protective gear. To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve of 720,000 masks that we had bought in case the [California] wildfires continued. We¡¯re also working on sourcing millions of more to donate. I hope you¡¯re all staying healthy and safe!¡±
Last week, to help the world, Facebook launched a COVID-19 information centre that would offer information about the novel coronavirus from trusted sources such as WHO and CDC, local health organisations as well as news agencies.
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Moreover, last week, Zuckerberg also announced that its 45,000 full-time workers will be given six-month bonuses, along with an additional $1000 to help employees work from home, without the easements and benefits Facebook employees get at the workplace.
Over the weekend, Cupertino giant Apple also announced that it will be donating millions of masks to authorities in the US as well as Europe, while also thanking healthcare providers for their support in these dark times.
Bill Gates, with his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, too has left no stone unturned. After pledging $100 million for the fight against COVID-19, he has funded 15,000 medicinal molecules to be shipped to a lab in Belgium to test a potential cure to the novel coronavirus and has also donated Rs 37 crores for at-home testing kits for COVID-19 for people in Washington.
