Facebook donating 720,000 masks to healthcare workers fighting coronavirus

Mar 24 2020, 12:09 am

Mark Zuckerberg has revealed his company will contribute directly to the frontline battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Facebook’s emergency reserve of 720,000 masks will be donated to healthcare workers to urgently provide them with more protective gear, Zuckerberg wrote on a post to his Facebook page. The company previously acquired this stockpile in case of prolonged wildfires in California, where the company is headquartered.

They are also working on sourcing millions of additional masks to donate.

Other tech leaders and companies are also contributing to the cause. Elon Musk indicated on his Twitter account he has a mask shipment stuck at Los Angeles International Airport and hopes for it to be freed up soon.

Salesforce’s Marc Benioff announced that they will be buying and donating up to 5 million masks this week. Jack Ma of China’s Alibaba is shipping emergency supplies around the world, such as masks, test kits, ventilators, and protective equipment.

Apple’s Tim Cook has also stated that he and his teams “have been working to help source supplies for healthcare providers.”

Companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Google are also providing their computing power to researchers to accelerate advancements towards coronavirus treatments and a vaccine.

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