Africa gets supplies from China's Jack Ma to combat COVID-19

As African countries shut borders amid fears of the disease's impact on fragile health systems, Chinese billionaire and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma pledged to donate over one million testing kits to the continent.

Tanzania, Liberia, Benin and Somalia recently reported their first cases. So far, the continent of 1.3 billion people has registered only around 1,100 cases spread across 43 countries, with 39 deaths, a tiny fraction of the more than 305,000 people infected and more than 13,000 deaths worldwide.

"We cannot ignore the potential risk to Africa and assume this continent of 1.3 billion people will blissfully escape the crisis. The world cannot afford the unthinkable consequences of a coronavirus pandemic in Africa," Ma's foundation said in a statement.

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