Currently, the United States of America is encountering a shortage of coronavirus testing kits and medical face masks. The need for these goods is increasing due to the continuous spread of the deadly coronavirus. That is when the founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma lends a helping hand.

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Jack Ma's Charitable Institution

On Friday, the charitable foundation of Alibaba's founder had released an announcement. The announcement includes a statement saying how Jack Ma exerted his best efforts to collect a huge number of the needed medical supplies such as coronavirus test kits and face masks for weeks.

The statement did not include any specification wherein the United States the test kits and face masks will go. This donation from Jack Ma will help ease the country's problems with the shortage of test kits. This shortage had even made the US fall behind other countries on the total number of coronavirus tests conducted per capita.

Basing from His Own Country's Experience with Combating the Spread of the Deadly Virus

Speedy and accurate testing for the coronavirus, including the sufficiency of personal protective equipment for medical workers are the most effective in controlling and preventing the spread of the deadly coronavirus, says Jack Ma. He based this statement from observation of his country's fight with COVID-19.

He believes that the key to winning over the virus is the elimination of resource constraints, sharing information, and hard-earned lessons from the novel coronavirus epidemic.

Statistics of the Coronavirus Pandemic

The deadly novel coronavirus was discovered in Wuhan, a city in mainland China. It was first identified in December last year. The lethal virus had already infected at least 128,000 people from different parts of the world. Also, 4,700 had already lost the fight with the virus, with the majority of the deaths occurring in mainland China.

In the United States of America, there are at least 1,676 cases. The total deaths caused by the new coronavirus illness is 40. 31 of the 40 are in the state of Washington while there were four deaths in California, two in Florida, one in South Dakota, one in New Jersey, and one in Georgia.

According to specialists, there is a possibility that the coronavirus epidemic will be more widespread than the current data about the United States.

Jack Ma's Charitable Effort: Not His First

This is not Jack Ma's first time lending a helping hand, he has a history of being charitable.

On January 30, Jack Ma promised to give 100 million yuan or $14.5 million. The donation will be used for the development of a cure to the coronavirus illness. Later, he donated another $2.15 million to Australia's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. The financial aid is also for the creation of a vaccine for the new coronavirus.