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Chinese Government donates 200,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $3.6 million in April 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$3,319,710
Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•SomaliaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•SomaliaSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Apr 11, 2021
Start (actual)
Apr 11, 2021
End (actual)
Apr 11, 2021

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Supplies arrived at Aden Adde International Airport, formerly known as Mogadishu International Airport. This is an international airport serving Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The handover ceremony was also held at this location. Mogadishu is located in the coastal Banadir region on the Indian Ocean. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/673848799.

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

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Somalia Ministry of Health

Loan desecription

Chinese Government donates 200,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $3.6 million in April 2021

Narrative

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Project narrative

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 700,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Somalia. The Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Somalia on April 11, 2021. The vaccines arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, and a handover ceremony was held at the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu. Somalian Health Minister, Fawziya Abikar Nur, Information Minister, Mohamed Abdi Hayr, and the Chinese Ambassador to Somalia, Qin Jian, attended the handover ceremony. Health Minister Fawziya Abikar Nur stated that 100,000 people would benefit from the donation. Minister Nur also stated that the vaccines would be distributed to all federal member states of the Somali government, with priority given to frontline health workers, essential service providers and the elderly. Then, on December 5, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 500,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Somalia. The vaccines arrived at the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, and a handover ceremony was held. Somalia’s Minister of Health and Human Services, Fawziya Abikar Nur, and China’s Ambassador to Somalia, Qin Jian, attended the ceremony.

Staff comments

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 April 2021 donation as $3.6 million.