Overview

Chinese Government donates 50,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $900,000 in June 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$829,927

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•Cabo VerdeDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Cabo VerdeSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2021

Start (actual): Jun 12, 2021

End (actual): Jun 12, 2021

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

Government of Cabo Verde

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 50,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $900,000 in June 2021

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On June 12, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 50,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines and over 50,000 syringes to the Government of Cape Verde. During the handover ceremony for the vaccines at Nelson Mandela International Airport in the capital city of Praia, Cape Verdean Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva expressed gratitude for China's support, saying his country would fulfill its vaccination plan to vaccinate 70 percent of the population by the end of this year.

Staff comments

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 June 2021 donation as $900,000.