Lady Gaga recently confirmed that $35 million has already been raised over the past seven days to support the WHO’s efforts to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Apple is one of the companies donating money to the cause, giving $10 million to the initiative.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the Cupertino firm’s donation in a video shared on The Tonight Show’s YouTube channel. Lady Gaga called the donation “quite sizeable.”
In the video, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and Lady Gaga FaceTime with Cook, who confirms Apple’s plans to donate to the initiative.
“One World: Together at Home” is set to be broadcast live on Saturday, April 18, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time/5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The special will be available on the ABC, NBC, and CBS television networks, and will be live-streamed by Apple, Amazon Prime Video, Alibaba, Facebook, Instagram, LiveXLive, Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, TIDAL, TuneIn, Twitch, Twitter, Yahoo, and YouTube.
The global special will feature appearances and musical performances from Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Burna Boy, Chris Martin, David Beckham, Eddie Vedder, Elton John, FINNEAS, Idris and Sabrina Elba, J Balvin, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Kerry Washington, Lang Lang, Lizzo, Maluma, Paul McCartney, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Shah Rukh Khan, and Stevie Wonder.
In addition to this donation, Apple has also sourced and donated over 20 million N95 masks to healthcare professionals. Also, its design, engineering, operations, and packaging teams are working to design, produce, and ship millions of face shields to medical workers.