Chinese Government donates 835,200 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses — via COVAX — worth $15 million in October 2021

On October 4, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered donated 835,200 doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Mali 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, on January 26, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 300,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Mali. Then, on October 27, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 300,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Mali.”

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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 October 2021 donation as $15,033,600.

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