Alibaba founder Ma Yun said on Weibo on the 16th that he would donate 100,000 masks, 1,000 protective clothing and 1,000 protective masks to each country in 54 countries in Africa, and donated 20,000 testing packages for each African country.It will also cooperate with medical institutions in Africa to provide online training information for clinical treatment of new coronary viruses.
According to titanium media reports, Ma Yun said that all 6 million masks, 1.1 million tests, 60,000 sets of protective clothing, 60,000 protective masks, and other materials we will uniformly send it to the Siyebba, Ethiopian, Ethiopian, and Ethiopian Prime MinisterProvide these African anti -epidemic materials to help responsible for logistics and distribution.
Ma Yun pointed out that the epidemic is spreading around the world, and we must run in front of the virus.African medical resources are relatively lacking. Once the spread is spread, the consequences are unimaginable.This disaster is more difficult and long than expected, and we must try our best to prepare.In the past two months, we have told us that taking it seriously and going all out can control the spread of the epidemic.Today we all live in the forest with the same fire. Watching, panic, ignorance, inaction, and chaos are irresponsible, and we must act.
It is understood that 26 African countries such as Ethiopia have successively reported new crown pneumonia in diagnosis cases. The continuous spread of the epidemic has brought new challenges to Africa, a weak medical system.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Aihamid Ali said on his personal Twitter that Africa is preparing for the preparation of the new crown virus to reduce the occurrence of medical disasters.Thank you very much for cooperating with Ethiopia to provide 1-20,000 groups of reagents and more than 100,000 masks for each African country. Such material assistance and technical support are important to prevent virus diffusion.
Earlier, the Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation and the Alibaba Public Welfare Foundation donated 1 million masks to Japan, South Korea, Iran, and 1.8 million masks and 100,000 test agents for European countries such as Italy and Spain.Based on 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks, these materials are being transported to all countries one after another.
Africa is a place where Jack Ma pays special attention to.In 2017, Ma Yun visited the African continent for the first time, and since then with Africa has been puzzled.He invested in the establishment of Ma Yun African Entrepreneurship Fund to help young African people realize their dreams; in November 2019, under the witness of Ma Yun and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi, the Ethiopian government signed an EWTP with Alibaba (World Electronics Trade Platform).
