The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is pledging up to $100 million to help find a vaccine for the coronavirus, limit its spread and improve the detection and treatment of patients.
The foundation said in a statement Wednesday that its funds would be used to help find a vaccine for the virus, limit its spread and improve the detection and treatment of patients.The new donation total includes $10 million the foundation had previously pledged.
Bill and Melinda Gates are known for their work on public health and philanthropy. In 2009, they worked with authorities in China to combat a tuberculosis outbreak in the country, contributing about $33 million to relief efforts. Bill Gates and Melinda Gates at an event in New York in 2018.In 2010, the couple committed as much as $10 billion to vaccine research over the next decade.
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