Chinese Government donates 3.5 million Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $63 million in December 2021

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 3.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia. A cooperation agreement was signed between China National Pharmaceutical Group and the Government of Bolivia on February 11, 2021. The Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia on February 24, 2021. Then, on March 30, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia. Then, on August 17, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 300,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia. Then, on December 26, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 3.5 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia.

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1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine dose is $18 (https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=DCD/DAC/STAT(2022)33&docLanguage=En). As such, AidData has estimated the monetary value of the December 2021 donation as $63 million.

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