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Health workers carrying out checks/ Image by Mercury News |
Earlier report by CNN also said the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, pledged to commit $100 million to help contain the outbreak of the disease.
Other multinational corporations making pledges toward combating the disease through provisions of medical supplies, relief materials, and equipments, include Alibaba, Tencent, Microsoft, Boeing, and Dell.
Tencent, another Chinese giant, founded a $42.7 million fund for medical supplies for Wuhan.
Microsoft will contribute $142,400 to support relief efforts in Wuhan and Hubei province, according to the Financial Times via Axios.
Cargill, a Minnesota-based agriculture company, and Dell will both donate $284,800 to the Chinese Red Cross.
Boeing will give 250,000 face masks to aid workers and medical personnel in Wuhan and Zhoushan.
According to CNN, the Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation said in a statement Wednesday that its funds would be used to help find a vaccine for the virus, limit its spread and improve the detection and treatment of patients.
The report also said funding by the organization will also be allocated to public health agencies in China and other countries affected by the outbreak.
"The release of fast and flexible funding is intended to help multilateral organizations and national public health authorities rapidly scale up their virus detection capabilities and implement disease modeling analytics," the group said in a statement.