{"id":211831,"date":"2020-04-20T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=211831"},"modified":"2020-04-20T14:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:28:54","slug":"alibaba-founder-sends-another-batch-of-medical-supplies-to-nigeria-others-to-tackle-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=211831","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba founder sends another batch of medical supplies to Nigeria, others to tackle COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, on Monday announced the donation of medical equipment to Africa to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese billionaire made the announcement on his verified Twitter handle, saying, \u201cOur 3rd donation to Africa will immediately be made to @_africanunion and @AfricaCDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes 4.6 million masks, 500,000 swabs, and test kits, 300 ventilators, 200,000 clothing sets, 200,000 face shields, 2,000 thermal guns, 100 body temperature scanners, and 500,000 pairs of gloves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Jack Ma had earlier made his first donation to the 54 African countries.<\/p>\n<p>He had donated 20,000 test kits, 100,000 masks, 1,000 medical protective suits and face shields.<\/p>\n<p>His second donation to Africa on April 6 included 500 ventilators, 200 thousand suits, face shields, and two thousand thermometers.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, on Monday announced the donation of medical equipment to Africa to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese billionaire made the announcement on his verified Twitter handle, saying, \u201cOur 3rd donation to Africa will immediately be made to @_africanunion and @AfricaCDC. \u201cThis includes 4.6 million masks, 500,000 swabs, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,14173,14641],"class_list":["post-211831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-jack-ma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}