Alibaba CEO Jack Ma Donates Healthcare Tools Worldwide as Countries Brace for a New Case Surge; Will It Include The World's Most Vulnerable People?

Alibaba founder Jack Ma has donated COVID-19 research kits, face mask, and protective equipment sets to worldwide as everyone braces for a domestic surge in coronavirus infections. The Chinese millionaire's move comes amid a more significant push by China to promote its efforts to contain the pandemic, which started in Wuhan.

United States, Africa

Jack Ma said his company sourced and readied for shipment 500,000 test kits and 1 million masks to be donated to the United States.

Ma's donation comes as medical examiners throughout the U.S. continue to face challenges in getting ahold of the COVID-19 assessments they need. CBS reported many people expressed their concerns about the supply of shielding equipment for front-line health care workers.

Due to a scarcity of the N95-type masks known to defend against the virus, the CDC has lowered the standard for clinicians, suggesting ordinary surgical masks may be worn instead.

The Chinese billionaire also gave millions more to the African continent to boost its capacity to fight the pandemic days after donating coronavirus testing kits and masks to the U.S.

"The world cannot afford the unthinkable consequences of a Covid-19 pandemic in Africa," said Ma.

Many African nations are struggling with fragile health care systems. Ethopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, according to South China Morning Post (SCMP), coordinated with the Chinese billionaire to distribute the testing kits, masks, and other items to every African country.

Southeast Asia, Europe

The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation introduced a joint donation of two million masks, 150,000 test kits, 20,000 units of protecting equipment, and 20,000 face shields to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.

The donations were released as coronavirus cases unexpectedly extended in Southeast Asia. "More help to other Asian international locations is at the way," the Jack Ma Foundation stated.

Countries in Southeast Asia have faced demanding situations of insufficient and inaccessible test kits in their battle to comprise the unfold of the virus.

Alibaba Group also offered Europe's embattled health structures a cloud-based coronavirus diagnostic tool that claimed to be "successfully tested out" in China's hospitals.

Alibaba claims its software can diagnose the COVID-19 virus speedily and with 96 percent accuracy. The enterprise says it has tested the product in China on 5,000 patients.

The agency said it presented its machine-learning knowledge of software programs for chest scans to health-care representatives in France and Italy. The Chinese tech organization added it shipped two million masks to the continent thru Belgium on Friday.

Yahoo! News said that the Alibaba Group published a "digital handbook" to "share their learnings from screening to prognosis and remedy of patients who suffered from COVID-19. The foundation additionally proposed a cloud-based data-sharing platform for doctors.

According to data compiled by SCMP, there have been more than 200,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in worldwide. As of writing, there have been more than 9,000 deaths and 85,812 other people recovered.