Chinese Government provides 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines worth USD $1.8 million to Guinea-Bissau in August 2021

On August 30, 2021, the Chinese Government provided 100,000 Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines to Guinea-Bissau. The vaccines are worth USD $1.8 million and will be used to support Guinea-Bissau’s COVID-19 response efforts. A handover ceremony was held for this donation at the Office of the High Commissioner for Anti-Epidemics in Guinea-Bissau. The Secretary of International Cooperation, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Public Health, and China’s Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, Guo Ce, attended the ceremony.

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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 August 2021 donation as $1,800,000.

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