Chinese Government donates 400,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $7.2 million in March 2021

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 800,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Niger. The Chinese Government delivered 400,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Niger on March 21, 2021. The vaccine doses were were delivered by airplane to Niamey Air Base. The President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, the Prime Minister of Niger, Brigi Rafini, Niger's acting Health Minister, Ahmed Boto, and the Chinese Ambassador to Niger, Zhang Lijun, attended the vaccine handover ceremony. Then, on December 14, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 400,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Niger. Mr. JIANG Feng, the Chinese Ambassador to Niger, and Niger’s Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs, Dr. Idi Illiassou Maïnassara, participated in the vaccine handover ceremony at the Diori Hamani International Airport.

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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 March 2021 donation as $7.2 million.

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