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After donating 30 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to Asian nations, Japan pledges to donate 60 million doses on September 23. Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga also confirmed the decision to double the vaccine's donation at a global summit held in the US. Vietnam, Taiwan, and Indonesia are among the beneficiary nation. So far, nearly 55 percent of Japan's population is fully vaccinated, equating to the US vaccine number. 

Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli has donated Rs 6.77 lakh for the treatment of former female cricketer KS Sravanthi Naidu's mother SK Suman, who is undergoing treatment for COVID-19. Kohli's donation followed BCCI associate N Vidya Yadav's tweet where she had urged for help tagging the skipper. "Honestly, I was amazed at his spontaneous gesture. Such a great gesture from such a great cricketer," said Vidya.

Harry Potter series creator JK Rowling has donated a six-figure sum to the UK-based charity organization, Khalsa Aid, to help in India's struggle against COVID-19. The donation was made by her charitable trust 'The Volant Charitable Trust'. The author took to Twitter to express gratitude to her readers who made the donation possible. Notably, the charitable trust has donated to many such international charities earlier.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced to have donated over Rs 110 ($15mn) crore to help India in the COVID-19 crisis. The donation have been split among three NGOs - Care ($10mn), Aid India ($2.5mn) and Sewa International USA ($2.5mn). All the three NGOs will be jointly working to set up temporary COVID care centres, provide oxygen and other medical supplies along with reaching out to marginalized communities.

Cricketer Virat Kohli and his actress-wife Anushka Sharma have contributed Rs 2 crore towards India's COVID relief fund through #InThisTogether campaign. The donation comes in collaboration with public-funding platform Ketto that aims to raise Rs 7 crore in total. The campaign will last for seven days and the amount raised will be forwarded to the ACT Grants, which is the implementation partner of the initiative.