Famous Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has donated $1.4 million to help tackle the recent outbreak of the coronavirus in his country, Italy.
Giorgio Armani, who is worth $6.7 billion, donated the money to three Milan-based hospitals, Rome’s Spallanzani Hospital and the Civil Protection Agency, a company spokeswoman said on March 9.
This comes after Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that the whole of the national territory has been placed under lockdown over rapid spread of coronavirus in Europe’s worst-affected country.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said at a press conference;
We now extend all the measure of the red zones are now to all the national territory and also place a ban on all public events until next month.
Italy has the third-highest number of coronavirus cases, behind China and South Korea.
