Chinese Government donates 100,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $1.8 million in August 2021

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 600,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zambia. The Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zambia on May 31, 2021. Then, on August 9, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines as well as 102,400 syringes to the Government of Zambia. Li Jie, the Chinese Ambassador to Zambia, attended the vaccine handover ceremony and delivered a speech. The aid package was meant to help the Government of Zambia combat its third wave of COVID-19. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 400,000 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Zambia on January 24, 2022.

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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 $1.8 million.

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