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Giorgio Armani Donates $1.4 Million To Fight Coronavirus In Italy

Giorgio Armani, the Italian luxury fashion house founder, has donated 1.25 million euros ($1.4 million)  to a range of Italian hospitals and institutions involved in fighting the coronavirus spread in the country.

The Luigi Sacco and San Raffaele hospitals and the Istituto dei Tumori in Milan, as well as the Istituto Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome, will benefit from the donation. The amount will additionally support the activities of Protezione Civile, the country’s civil defense.

The announcement was made on Sunday night, after the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Italy climbed to 7,375, while in the last 24 hours 133 people have died from the virus.

As of Monday night, 460 people in Italy have died and more than 9,000 have been infected.

A number of other luxury companies have made donations to fight the COVID-19 crisis both in Italy and in China.

 

 

Angela Davies

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