Guardiola Donates €1 M to Combat Coronavirus

Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola has donated €1 million (£920,000) to combat the coronavirus outbreak in Spain.

Guardiola, who is at his home in Barcelona, has been working with his lawyers over the past few days to work out the best way of using the money.

The money will be sent to a campaign being promoted by the Medical College of Barcelona and the Angel Soler Daniel Foundation.

Spain  is one of the European countries, which was badly affected by the virus. It recorded on Wednesday a new 738 coronavirus death, bringing the total death toll at 3434.

The death toll in the country surpassed the official figure from China, becoming the second highest in the world.

In comparison, China has officially reported 3,285 deaths, while Italy – the worst affected country – has 6,820.

The money will be used to help buy medical equipment and protective material for the hospital staff involved in treating the diagnosed patients.

On Wednesday, March 11, WHO declared that the coronavirus, which is spreading around the world, a “global pandemic; however it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.

According to the organization, the number of the COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.

“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.