Chinese Government donates 300,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses worth $5.4 million in May 2021 for pandemic relief

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 700,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Gabon. The Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Gabon on March 12, 2021. Then, on April 9, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 300,000 donated doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Gabon. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 300,000 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Gabon on May 9, 2021. This project captures the grant delivered to Gabon in May. According to Hu Changchun, the Chinese Ambassador to Gabon, 200,000 of the doses were a gift from the Chinese Government to the Gabonese Government, and 100,000 of the vaccines were a gift from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China to the Gabonese military.

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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 May 2021 donation as $5.4 million.

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