Jack Ma donates thousands of extraction kits, swabs, masks, gloves to Botswana’s COVID-19 war

 

 

The second consignment of Jack Ma Foundation’s donations of emergency medical supplies to Botswana arrived in Gaborone this week. According to the Chinese Embassy in Gaborone, the consignment consists of 18, 912 extraction kits, 18, 900 swabs and viral transport medium, 10, 320 N95 masks, 9,500 medical gloves, 3,800 face shields, 3,700 medical protective clothing, 36 thermometer guns and two ventilation machines.

The first donation from Jack Ma Foundation including 100, 000 masks, 20,000 testing kits, 1,000 PPE and other protective gears has been put into use right after its arrival in Gaborone on 26th March. In other updates the Embassy says that as of 16th April 2020, Chinese mainland reported 26 new confirmed cases, 15 of which were imported from abroad. Hubei reported 0 new infections. 52 patients were released after being cured. As of 24:00 on 16th April, Chinese mainland has reported 1,549 cases of imported confirmed infections and 0 deaths. There still remained 879 confirmed cases and 57 suspected cases.