Overview

Chinese Government donates 100,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $1.8 million to the Government of Namibia in July 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$1,659,855

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•NamibiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•NamibiaSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Mar 16, 2021

Start (actual): Mar 16, 2021

End (actual): Mar 16, 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 Namibia

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Zimbabwe

Loan desecription

Chinese Government donates 100,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $1.8 million to the Government of Namibia in July 2021

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 350,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Namibia. The Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zambia on March 16, 2021. The shipment arrived at Hosea Kutako International Airport and Namibian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah attended the vaccine handover ceremony. Then, on July 16, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 250,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Namibia.

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 March 2021 donation as $1.8 million.