Apple Doubles China Donations For COVID-19 Recovery Efforts Covid-19 Recovery

Apple doubles China donations for COVID-19 recovery efforts

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple additional than doubled its donation to China’s efforts to oppose COVID-19 to over 50 million yuan ($7 million), CEO Tim Cook posted on top of Weibo on top of Wednesday, weeks after the iPhone maker said it had opened all its 42 stores in single of its largest markets.

FILE PHOTO: The Apple Inc. logo is seen hanging at the opening to the Apple store on top of 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, U.S., October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Cook said in a post on top of Twitter last week that Apple donated 10 million masks for health professionals in the United States and Europe, which it sourced through its give networks.

Supplies and donations keep come in from wealthy executives and corporates about the earth to oppose the coronavirus, which has killed additional than 42,000 persons globally.

Chinese billionaire and Alibaba (), Huawei and ByteDance, according to Chinese media reports.

Apple has already donated 20 million yuan of its promised amount through Beijing-based China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to support six hospitals in Hubei, including the makeshift Leishenshan hospital in Wuhan, Cook said.

Apple will contribute the rest of the money to support longer-term public health recovery efforts, he said.

“China has shown incredible spirit and resilience through the COVID-19 eruption and we are grateful to our teams, partners and customers for their support through these challenging times,” Cook said in a message on top of China’s Twitter equivalent Weibo.

COVID-19 is the name of the respiratory disease caused via the coronavirus.

Apple warned last month it was unlikely to meet its March-quarter sales guidance as the ramp-up of Chinese factories that produce iPhones was slower than expected after weeks of closures.

The flu-like virus originated in China last year and has since spread across 205 countries and territories. Globally it has infected additional 850,000 people, according to a Reuters tally.

Reporting via Josh Horwitz in Shanghai; Writing via Sayantani Ghosh in Singapore; Editing via Himani Sarkar