Alibaba Founder Jack Ma to donate 1.8 million masks and 210K test kits to Asian Countries

Countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, the Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka would all receive the help

The founder of Alibaba Foundation Jack Ma, promises to provide 1.8 million face masks and 210,000 coronavirus test kits to some of the continent’s poorest nations. This is the efforts of Asia’s richest man on the ongoing global pandemic (Covid-19) the novel coronavirus, which is affecting the world in large number. To push back this pandemic the novel coronavirus Alibaba Founder came forward.

Jack Ma through his twitter account announced, that the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation were shipping a donation of emergency supplies to the U.S. Previously Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. aided countries like Japan, Iran and Italy, with virus-fighting efforts. They also extended their help to the countries in Africa by sending thousands of testing kits and masks.

Go Asia! We will donate emergency supplies (1.8M masks, 210K test kits, 36K protective suits, plus ventilators & thermometers) to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka. Delivering fast is not easy, but we'll get it done!

— Jack Ma (@JackMa) March 21, 2020

Ma took to twitter and said that countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, the Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka would all receive the help that includes protective suits, ventilators and thermometers.

Global shortages of essential medical and protective equipment have affected even the most developed economies, with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo saying more “ventilators, ventilators, ventilators” were needed to help his state handle the anticipated number of infected people needing treatment.

Until now Globally, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 235,000 people & the death toll exceeded 10,000. In Italy, the death toll overtook China’s.