Jack Ma and Alibaba foundations have sent the third round of medical supplies to Africa. The medical equipment was a donation from the foundation. For this reason, The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received the donation. The donation is to help in the fight against coronavirus.
Hence, the most recent batch of the donation showed up in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa late Monday through an Ethiopian Airlines payload flight.
Jack Ma and Alibaba foundation
The third-round donation to Africa from the Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundation essentially incorporates 4.6 million masks, 2,000 thermometers, 300 ventilators, 200,000 sets of protective gear, 200,000 face guards, 500,000 swabs and test packs,100 internal heat level scanners, and 500,000 sets of gloves.
However, the donation is supposed to come in more bunches in the coming days. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed expressed his gratitude to the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba on Twitter for ‘continuing to show solidarity with Africa.’
“As members of the global community, it would be irresponsible for us to sit on the fence, panic, ignore facts, or fail to act. We need to take action now,” said Jack Ma.
Meanwhile, the Jack Ma Foundation is also collaborating with Africa CDC. This is to hold a special webinar entitled ‘Global MediXChange for Combating Covid-19 (GMCC): The Experience of China’ on April 28.
A platform for information sharing on COVID-19
The GMCC platform was inaugurated in March to encourage open information sharing and online correspondence to battle Covid-19. Consequently, many of the clinical staff from African nations, among them, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and South Africa has taken an interest in its meetings. A week ago, the African Union (AU) Commission praised the Chinese tech business person and humanitarian. This was in regard to his most recent declaration of the third-round donation.
Commendation for showing solidarity with Africa
The AU Commissioner of Social Affairs, Amira Elfadil, additionally congratulated the recent bunch of huge clinical supplies donation from Jack Ma. This is on the side of Africa’s battle against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. She termed it ‘true solidarity with Africa.’
Deputy Director of Africa CDC, Ahmed Ogwell likewise hailed the donation saying the Africa CDC values friends of Africa.
Nevertheless, on Tuesday, the Africa CDC revealed that the loss of life from the progressing Covid-19 pandemic in Africa got to 1,423. Additionally, the measure of affirmed cases hit 31,933 starting from early Tuesday. However, on March 22, the first group of massive clinical supplies donated by Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundation reached Africa. The huge clinical supplies, not long after its coming in the Ethiopian capital, had been moved to 54 African nations.
The Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundation made the second round of donations On April 6. The donations went to each of the 54 nations in Africa as the mainland struggles with the pandemic.
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