March 23 (The Killid Group) − Facebook and Apple companies have each announced they have donated emergency reserve masks to help frontline healthcare workers stay protected during the coronavirus outbreak.
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted on Sunday how the company was donating “millions of masks for health professionals in the US and Europe.”
“Our teams at Apple have been working to help source supplies for healthcare providers fighting COVID-19.” Mr. Cook said.
Similarly, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social media company has donated 720,000 masks.
“Health workers urgently need more protective gear. To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve of 720,000 masks that we had bought in case the wildfires continued,” he wrote on a Facebook post.
“We’re also working on sourcing millions of more to donate,” he added.
At the time of writing, there are at least 339,035 confirmed cases and over 14,705 deaths worldwide, according to the latest reports by John Hopkins University.
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