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Till 3:57pm, April 21, 2020, the coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan). There are totally 2483,181 COVID-19 cases in the world and 170,501 people have died. 

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1st-3rd Graders Will Return to School

Following the news earlier last week that 4th-8th & 10th-11th graders returned to school this Monday, the Hangzhou Municipal Education Commission announced that 1st to 3rd graders would be welcomed back on April 26th.

Hubei Province, the epicenter of China’s battle with COVID-19, officially announced yesterday that high school graduating classes, or grade 12, will return to school on May 6. As the last region to make such an announcement, the news marks a historic day since the virus first emerged late last year.

Of the 68,128 diagnoses across Hubei, 4,512 people lost their lives and 105 remain hospitalized. The last infection was diagnosed on Apr 3.

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Jack Ma Is Donating Millions of Masks and Test Kits to the WHO

▲ Supplies donated by Jack Ma are unloaded at the airport in Dakar, Senegal, on March 28. Sadak Souici/AFP/Getty Images

Alibaba founder Jack Ma, the billionaire who helped usher e-commerce into China, announced today that he is donating millions of masks and test kits to the World Health Organization.

In a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo, Ma said he and Alibaba would donate 100 million clinical masks, 1 million N-95 masks, and 1 million test kits to the WHO. "One world, one fight," the post read.

This isn't the first coronavirus aid that Ma and Alibaba have supplied:

In January, Alibaba announced it would set up a 1 billion yuan ($141 million) fund to buy medical supplies for Wuhan and Hubei province, the Chinese epicenter of the outbreak.

Days later, Ma donated 100 million yuan ($14.1 million) to help find a coronavirus vaccine.

On March 2, he said on Weibo he had donated 1 million masks to Japan.

On March 6, Ma said on Weibo he was working to ship 1 million masks to Iran.

On March 11, he posted that 1.8 million masks and 100,000 testing kits would go to Europe, with the first batch arriving in Belgium, with more plans to donate to Italy and Spain.

On March 14, Ma said he would donate half a million testing kits and 1 million face masks to the United States.

On March 21, leaders in Ethiopia and Rwanda said they had received the first batch of coronavirus test kits and prevention materials donated by Ma to 54 African countries.

After two decades building Alibaba into a $460 billion e-commerce business, Ma retired from the role of executive chairman and pivoted full-time to philanthropy.

He started the Jack Ma Foundation in 2014, and has cited the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as an inspiration for his charitable endeavors.

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$2 trillion: The amount the global economy could lose during the pandemic, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development. 

22 million Americans have applied for unemployment in just the last month.

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