Overview

Chinese Government donates 150,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $2.7 million in July 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$2,489,782

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•Central African RepublicDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Central African RepublicSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2021

Start (actual): Jul 6, 2021

End (actual): Jul 6, 2021

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

Government of the Central African Republic

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Government of the Central African Republic

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 150,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $2.7 million in July 2021

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On March 3, 2021, the Chinese Ambassador to the Central African Republic announced that his government would donate a batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of the Central African Republic. Then, on July 6, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 150,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Central African Republic.

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). As such, AidData has estimated the monetary value of the month year donation as $2.7 million.