Overview

Chinese Government donates 818,400 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $14.7 million in September 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$13,584,253

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•Cote d'IvoireDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Cote d'IvoireSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Sep 17, 2021

Start (actual): Sep 17, 2021

End (actual): Sep 18, 2021

Geospatial footprint

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1046100133

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Cote d'Ivoire Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene

Loan desecription

Chinese Government donates 818,400 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $14.7 million in September 2021

Narrative

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Project narrative

The Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Cote d'Ivoire on June 23, 2021. The donation from the People's Republic of China was received by the Ivorian Minister in charge of Health, Mr. Pierre N'gou Dimba, in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire. Then, on September 17-18, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 818,400,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Cote d'Ivoire. The shipment arrived in Cote d'Ivoire at the Felix Houphouet Boigny airport in Abidjan. Ivorian Minister of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Disease Coverage M. Pierre N'gou DIMBA, and the UNICEF country representative received the donation.

Staff comments

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 September 2021donation as $14,731,200.