Chinese Government donates 200,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $3.6 million in August 2021

On April 23, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Togo. Chinese Ambassador to Togo Chao Weidong and the Togolese Minister of Health Mustafa Mijiyawa received the vaccine doses at Gnassingbe Eyadema International Airport. Then, on August 20, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Togo. On the same day, the Chinese Government donated 702,000 additional doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Togo 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. Then, between October 18 and 26, 2021, the Chinese Government donated 702,000 additional doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Togo via COVAX.

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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 $3.6 million.

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