TikTok, has contribute $250 million to coronavirus relief efforts around the world.
The fast-growing mobile video app, said the funds would be for front line medical workers, educators, and local communities deeply affected by the global crisis.
"We are committed to playing our part in that global outpouring of mutual support and giving," TikTok president Alex Zhu said in a statement.
"We want to magnify all we are seeing across our community and translate it into concrete relief for those most affected by this crisis."
According to TikTok $150 million of the funds would be allocated for medical staffing, supplies, and hardship relief for health care workers through the US Centers for Disease Control, World Health Organization, and agencies working to distribute supplies in hard-hit countries including India, Indonesia, Italy and South Korea.
Another $40 million will be donated to organizations that serve groups representative of TikTok’s diverse user communities, including musicians, artists, nurses, educators, and families that have come together on our platform, Zhu said.
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