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Chinese Government and Egyptian Government Donate 500,000 Vaccines to Palestine

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$4,149,637
Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•West Bank and Gaza StripDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•West Bank and Gaza StripSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jul 18, 2021
Start (actual)
Dec 1, 2021
End (actual)
Feb 21, 2022

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • China Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Cofinancing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Palestine

Implementing agencies

Private Sector

  • Sinovac

State-owned companies

  • VACSERA

Loan description

Chinese Government and Egyptian Government Donate 500,000 Vaccines to Palestine

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

China and Egypt have donated 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Palestine to boost its fight against the pandemic, the Chinese Embassy to Egypt said in a statement on Feb. 22nd, 2022. The vaccines were locally produced in Egypt through a partnership between Egypt's Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (VACSERA) and Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac, according to Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, Egypt's acting health minister and higher education minister, who attended a ceremony held at VACSERA's headquarters on Feb. 21st to mark the donation. The two countries’ partnership culminated in signing two agreements in April 2021 between VACSERA and the Chinese bioproducts company Sinovac to manufacture the Chinese vaccine in Egypt. This donation was first announced in the framework of talks held by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during the latter’s visit to Egypt in July 2021. Egypt and Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech signed the agreement for production in December 2021.

Staff comments

1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine dose is $18 (https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=DCD/DAC/STAT(2022)33&docLanguage=En). 2. As such, AidData has applied the Equal Contribution Assumption estimating the Chinese part of the donation, which resulted in 4,500,000.