Friday, March 13, 2020

Jack Ma Offers to Supply the US With Covid-19 Tests and Masks | WIRED

Jack Ma Offers to Supply the US With Covid-19 Tests and Masks | WIRED: As the US government promises to ramp up more Covid-19 testing, an unlikely billionaire is offering to lend his help: Jack Ma, cofounder of the Chinese tech giant Alibaba. Ma’s philanthropic organization, the Jack Ma Foundation, said early Friday morning it would donate 500,000 Covid-19 testing kits and 1 million protective face masks to the US. The action comes after US health authorities have struggled for weeks to test people for the new coronavirus, falling far behind testing rates in other developed countries like Italy and South Korea.