Microsoft founder Bill Gates donated 100 million US dollars to fight the corona virus. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Foundation, Bill Gates will help finance the strengthening of detection, prevention and vaccine development.

Translated from the official Bill & Melinda Gates website, Thursday (6/2/2020), the Gates Foundation will coordinate with WHO to eradicate the outbreak. The latest funding includes a contribution of US $ 10 million given to the corona virus at the end of January.

“Multilateral organizations, national governments, the private sector and philanthropy must work together to slow the spread of epidemics, help countries protect their citizens who are vulnerable to infection and accelerate the development of tools to control this epidemic,” Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said.

In this contribution, the Gates Foundation has prepared a strategy to help fight the corona virus. It will allocate US $ 20 million to accelerate the detection, treatment and isolation of patients infected with the corona virus.

The funds will be channeled to WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, funds will also be channeled to the health authorities of China and countries that have contracted the corona virus.

Furthermore, an allocation of funds of US $ 20 million will be channeled through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Africa to assist health authorities in African countries. Although the deadly virus has not yet entered Africa, the Gates Foundation will focus on preventing it from attacking the region.

Not only that, the Gates Foundation has also allocated 60 million US dollars to accelerate the discovery, development and testing of the corona virus vaccine.

To note, the corona virus was first reported to spread in the city of Wuhan, China, at the end of December 2019. Since then, the dangerous virus has claimed 563 more lives and spread to dozens of other countries.

So far, it has been reported that at least more than 28 thousand people have been infected with the virus. The Chinese government itself has stopped transportation in Wuhan and other cities, so it is estimated that there are more than 50 million people “trapped” in the region of the corona virus epidemic, so as not to spread to other areas.