Joe Tsai, the billionaire co-founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, and his wife Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks, 170,000 goggles and 2000 ventilators to New York — the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic
New York .
The supplies were split into two shipments. The first arrived on Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, while the second arrived on Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport."We kept hearing cries for from our community and wanted to help," Clara Tsai told CNN in an interview. The state will allocate the second shipment but"it's our intention to help the most underserved institutions.
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