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CoronaVirus: Alibaba’s Founder, Jack Ma Donates Face Masks,Test Kits To US (Photos)
This is the time the world needs each other, especially in a situation like this when world leaders are helpless and people are dying of the dreaded coronavirus, we all need help and motivations to be there for each other.
China’s billionaire, philanthropist and co-founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma has sent the first shipment of surgical masks and coronavirus test kits to the US.
The Chinese billionaire tweeted two pictures of the pallets of goods being loaded on to a plane in Shanghai.
Earlier this month he said he would give 500,000 testing kits and one million masks to America.
Mr. Ma is also sending consignments of medical supplies to Europe as he called for international cooperation efforts to combat the pandemic.
Jack Ma who just joint twitter, posted photos of a China Eastern Airlines jet being loaded with boxes of coronavirus test kits and face masks as they were shipped to the US.
The first shipment of masks and coronavirus test kits to the US is taking off from Shanghai. All the best to our friends in America. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/LTn26gvlOl
— Jack Ma (@JackMa) March 16, 2020
This donation comes after the Jack Ma Foundation and the Alibaba Foundation last week announced that they had prepared 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks to be sent to America.
They also said that they had already donated supplies to other countries including Japan, South Korea, Italy, Iran, and Spain, with two million protective masks pledged for distribution across Europe.
The first consignment of 500,000 masks and other medical supplies such as test kits, which was destined for Italy, arrived in Belgium on Friday.