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

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 1.7 million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tunisia. The Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tunisia on March 25, 2021. At the vaccine handover ceremony, the Chinese Ambassador to Tunisia Zhang Jianguo was present to the donation to the Tunisian Minister of Health Sudu Mehdi. Then, on February 22, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered another 1.5 million donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tunisia.

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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 March 2021 donation as $3.6 million.

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