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

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 400,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Guinea-Bissau. The Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Guinea-Bissau on August 30, 2021. Then, on October 4, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Guinea-Bissau via COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) — a worldwide initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines directed by the GAVI vaccine alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 100,000 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Guinea-Bissau on January 9, 2021.

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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 August 2021 donation as $1.8 million.

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