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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation[BMGF] said this week it will provide up to $100 million to support action against the 2019 novel coronavirus. It says the money will help strengthen efforts to test people for the virus, separate healthy individuals from the sick and find treatment for them.
Controlling the epidemic: The donation will help speed development of the “tools to bring this epidemic under control,” the chief executive officer of the Gates Foundation; Mark Suzman said.
Worldwide emergency: The Gates Foundation is giving money and working with other donors to help the World Health Organization (WHO), Chinese medical workers and others worldwide. It noted the need for an organized international effort to fight the virus.
Increased efforts to find and treat the coronavirus: The foundation promised $20 million right away to hurry the process of identifying those who are sick, keeping them separate, and helping them get better. The goal is to stop the disease from spreading to more people and places. Money is also going to public health officials in China and other countries with coronavirus patients to help them pay the start-up cost of medical workers and supplies.
Protecting at-risk groups in Africa and South Asia: Recent epidemics, such as the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009, have had a big effect on people living in extreme poverty. Most of those people live in African countries south of the Sahara Desert or parts of South Asia. Another $20 million is going to public health officials in these areas to improve their emergency operations and to treat confirmed cases. One partner is the African Field Epidemiology Network, a non-profit service that currently operates in more than 30 African countries.
Developing Vaccines: Of the total donation, $60 million will go to speed the process of making vaccines to protect against the novel coronavirus. One organization working on developing the anti-coronavirus vaccines is the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations with Chinese public- and private-sector researchers; trying to find ways to stop the spread of the virus.
21．The money donated by the BMGF will be used in the following aspects except______
A．to build a new hospital in China B．to separate the healthy from the sick
C．to test people for the virus D．to find treatment for the virus -infected
22．Which of the following statements is true?
A．The money is specially donated to China’s public health department.
B．Another $20 million will be used to help African people suffering from starvation.
C．Most of the donated money will be put into the developing and innovating vaccines.
D．The African Field Epidemiology Network is a non- profit medical service organization only in western Africa.
23．The passage is most probably digested from ___.
A．a poster B．a magazine C．a text book D．a news report
