Chinese Government donates 30,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $540,000 in March 2021

On March 3, 2021, a Chinese Government donation of 200,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Montenegro. This donation from the Chinese Government was meant to help vaccinate the Montenegrin population. The Government of Montenegro subsequently purchased 201,200 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19, which arrived in Montenegro on May 1, 2021. It then purchased an additional 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19, which arrived in Montenegro on June 30, 2021. A handover ceremony took place on July 1, 2021.

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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 March 2021 donation as $540,000.

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