Chinese Government provides 200,00 COVID-19 vaccines to Guinea-Bissau in October 2021

On October 4, 2021, the Chinese Government provided a second shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to Guinea-Bissau. The shipment consisted of 200,000 Sinopharm vaccines. The donation was made to support COVID-19 response efforts in Guinea-Bissau. The monetary value of this donation is unknown. A handover ceremony was held for this donation in Bissau, the nation's capital. The High Commissioner for the Fight Against COVID-19 Magda Robalo Correia e Silva, Chinese Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau Guo Ce, WHO representative in Guinea-Bissau Jean-Marie Kipela, and other officials were present.

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1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single Sinopharm/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 June 2021 donation from the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government as $3.6 million.

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