As the Novel virus sweeps across the Globe, Billionaires are donating funds to help fight it, Out of the worlds 2,065 billionaires according to Forbes 77 list, Here is a list of donations made by few billionaires :
1. Jack Dorsey the C.E.O of a microblogging app (twitter) tops the list with $1billion USD he announced this on April 4th as his own way to help combat Covid19.
2.Bill and Melinda Gates pledged the second largest donation, whose foundation committed $255 million USD to help on diagnostic development and vaccines.
3.AZ Premji (India) Pledged $132million USD.
4.George Soros (US) Committed $130million USD.
5.Jeff Skoll (US) donated $110million USD.
6.Jeff Bezos (US) donated $100million USD.
7.Micheal Dell (US) donated $100million USD.
8.Micheal Bloomberg (US) donated $74.5million USD.
9.Lynn Schusterman and Stacy (US) donated $70million USD.
10.Armancio Ortega (Spain) donated $68million USD.
11.Nicky Oppenheimer (south Africa) donated $54.5 million USD.
12.Johann Rupert (South Africa) donated $54.5million USD.
13.Patrice Motsepe (south Africa) donated $43.5million USD.
14.Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan (US) donated $37million USD.
15.Alicia Usmanov (Russia) donated $33.2million USD.
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