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

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 540,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of the Republic of Congo. The Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of the Republic of Congo on March 10, 2021. The handover ceremony was held in Brazzaville, Congo. The ceremony was attended by Chinese Ambassador to Congo Ma Fulin, Congolese Foreign Minister Gacoso, Minister of Health Mikolo, Minister of Defense Moncho (Coordinator of the National Anti-epidemic Mechanism), and WHO Representative in Congo Manga. Then, on March 25, 2021, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China donated an additional 40,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses to the Congolese Ministry of National Defense. The Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of Congo, Ma Fulin, and the Congolese Minister of National Defense, Mr. Charles Richard Mondjo, received the batch of vaccines and they were then delivered to the Congolese Ministry of National Defense on March 26, 2021. On May 14, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 additional donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of the Republic of Congo. The vaccines arrived at Maya-Maya airport in Brazzaville, Congo. This donation was given by Ma Fulin, Chinese Ambassador to Congo, to the Congolese Government represented, by Mrs. Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo, the Minister of Health in Congo. Approximately 6 months later, in January 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of the Republic of Congo.

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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 May 2021 donation as $3.6 million.

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