Messi donates € 1M to two hospitals to fight the coronavirus

Leo Messi also wants to lend a hand to end the coronavirus, a pandemic that has plagued the planet since last January and which at this point amounts to around 415.00 infected and 18,500 deaths.

As you have been able to know ACE, the Argentinean has donated around million euros to be distributed between the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona and another in Argentina. In this way, the Barça star has wanted to have a detail with his country of origin and with the city that welcomed him with only thirteen years.

This financial aid will improve the situation of hospitals, which struggle to have the necessary materials to face this type of virus that It causes pneumonia with greater impact in the elderly. And Catalonia is one of the areas hardest hit by COVID-19 in Spain with almost 8,000 infected and 282 deceased, according to data provided by health on the morning of this Tuesday.

For his part, Argentina adds 306 infections and so far six people have died, but the figure is expected to increase as the coronavirus has later arrived in South America. In both countries citizens are confined at home to lower the contagion curve.