Billionaire Gates’s foundation to focus solely on virus, FT says


Gates said the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will give ‘total attention’ to the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 and is roiling economies around the world. — AFP

Billionaire Bill Gates’s foundation will focus all of its resources on fighting the coronavirus, according to the Financial Times.

The philanthropist and founder of Microsoft Corp said that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with an endowment exceeding US$40bil (RM174.38bil), will give “total attention” to the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 and is roiling economies around the world, he said in an interview with the newspaper.

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