Jack Ma, China’s richest man and the founder of online shopping website Alibaba, has donated to Uganda essential sanitary goods needed in combating the rapidly spreading Coronavirus, the Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng has confirmed.
In a Twitter post, Dr. Aceng, thanked @JackMa and @AlibabaGroup for the donation of key supplies.
She said the supplies would to “enhance our #COVID19 response. The items which arrived this afternoon aboard @flyethiopian,”
According to Aceng, the items delivered include; -100,000 masks, 20,089 test kits, 741 personal protective equipment, 11,111 face shields.
The Chinese billionaire extended the same gesture of generosity to all the 54 member countries of the African Union.
