Charlotte Hornets center Bismack Biyombo knows how dangerous the COVID-19 pandemic is for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his home country in central Africa.
While they had just 287 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Friday night, according to The New York Times, the country has been battling dangerous diseases for years. The country had more than 3,300 confirmed cases of Ebola in February, according to the United Nations, a disease that killed at least 2,250 people.
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So, even though he’s on the other side of the world, Biyombo is working to make a difference.