Co-founder and CEO of Twitter,  Jack Dorsey has donated one billion American dollars for charity. The chief executive officer noted that he would be dedicating more than a quarter of his wealth to a new fund for charitable causes. Jack said part of the fund will immediately focus on coronavirus pandemic the world is battling with. The world currently have over 1.3 million cases worldwide with death toll close to 80,000

Dorsey announced it on his Twitter feed on Tuesday. According to him, the amount of around 28% of his wealth will be used for this cours. He noted that the first part of this find, which is $100,000 will be channelled to America’s Food Fund, to provide meals for those infected with coronavirus.

He however did not reveal how much of the $1 billion will be directed towards covid-19 as opposed to other charitable after the crisis ends.

I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: https://t.co/hVkUczDQmz

— jack (@jack) April 7, 2020

“After we disarm this pandemic,  the focus will be shift to girls health and education and UBI. I believe they represent the best long term solutions to the existential problems facing the world” Jack said

His announcement came after other giant tech companies like Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Co founder,  Bill Gates announced similar donations.

Both have pledged $100 million for coronavirus relief. Google, another tech giant is also donating $800 million amids coronavirus to help those affected worldwide.

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There is a shortfall of condoms worldwide amids covid-19 after a top producer is shutdown. The spread of covid-19 has made companies to suspend all activities to curb the situation hence affecting everyone globally.

Malaysia’s company, Karax BHD makes one in every five condoms worldwide. It has not produce a single condom from its three, Malaysian factory for more than a week due to the lockdown imposed by government on all activities. There is already a shortfall of about 100million condoms normally marketed globally by brands such us Durex  which is supplied to state healthcare systems such as Britain’s NHS of distributed by aid programs such as the United Nations population fund.

“It will take time to jumpstart factories and we will struggle to keep up with the demand at half capacity” the company’s CEO said

He continued to reveal that there’s going to be global shortage which is very scary.

“Wecare going to see global shortage of condoms everywhere, which is going to be scary. My concern is that for a lot of humanitarian programs deep down in Africa, the shortage will not just be two weeks or a month. That shortage can run into months” he said

Malaysia is southeast Asia’s worst affected country with 2,161 cases of coronavirus with 26 people losing their lives. There is currently lockdown which is supposed to end on the 24th of April

Malaysia announced a $57 billion stimulus package to revamp Malaysia’s industry and to support those affected by the pandemic.

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