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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated the sum of $10 million in emergency funds and corresponding technical support to help frontline responders in China and Africa to accelerate effort to contain global spread of Coronavirus.
The Foundation announced its donation to support effort to tackle global spread of Coronavirus in China and Africa in a statement on Monday.
According to the statement, both China and Africa will get $5m each to tackle the spread of the deadly virus which according to reports has infected more than more than 2,700 and killed at least 80 in China.
The statement reads: “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it is immediately committing $10 million in emergency funds and corresponding technical support to help frontline responders in China and Africa accelerate their efforts to contain the global spread of 2019-nCoV.
“The foundation is committing $5 million to the 2019-nCoV response in China and is already working with a range of Chinese public and private sector partners to accelerate national and international cooperation in areas of critical need, including efforts to identify and confirm cases, safely isolate and care for patients and accelerate the development of treatments and vaccines.
“Partners include the National Health Commission and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and various research institutes affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen University and Sinopharm China National Biotec Group.
“The foundation is also immediately committing $5 million to assist the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in scaling up public health measures against 2019-nCoV among African Union member states. These measures will include technical support to implement the screening and treatment of suspected cases, laboratory confirmation of 2019-nCoV diagnoses and the safe isolation and care of identified cases.”
