Spending IDR 2.1 Trillion, Google Magic Offices To Become A COVID-19 Vaccination Area

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JAKARTA - Google announced its initiative assistance by providing more than 150 million US dollars or around Rp2, 1 trillion to help distribute the COVID-19 vaccine. One of them is by turning Google's office in the United States into a COVID-19 vaccine center.

"We are providing more than 150 million dollars to promote vaccine education and fair distribution and make it easier to find locally relevant information, including when and where to get the vaccine," said Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai in Google's official blog. Tuesday, January 26.

Reporting from Endgadget, several Google facilities, such as buildings, parking lots and open spaces in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kirkland, Washington and New York will be transformed into locations for vaccination clinics and vaccine delivery sites.

"We will also open up Google space to become a vaccination site as needed," he added.

Pichai also announced that Google will provide 100 million US dollars in ad grants to the CDC Foundation, WHO and other non-profit organizations.

The technology giant plans to invest $ 50 million in partnerships with public health agencies to help get information about vaccines to underserved communities.

To help get vaccines to more people, Google is providing $ 150M to promote vaccine education & equitable access, and opening up our spaces for vaccination sites as needed. On Search & Maps, we're making it easy to find when + where to get a vaccine. https://t.co/Iep0n0Dv47

- Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) January 25, 2021

"Our efforts will be very focused on equitable access to vaccines," said Pichai.

"Preliminary data in the US show that disproportionately affected populations, especially people of color and people in rural communities, do not get access to vaccines at the same rate as other groups," he continued.

Google provides $ 5 million in grants to organizations, such as the Morehouse School of Medicine's Satcher Health Leadership Institute, which focuses on addressing racial and geographic differences in vaccine access.