Overview

Chinese Government donates 500,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $9 million in October 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$8,299,275

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•JordanDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•JordanSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Oct 31, 2021

Start (actual): Oct 31, 2021

End (actual): Nov 4, 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 Jordan

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Jordan

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 500,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $9 million in October 2021

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

The Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Jordan on April 25, 2021. Then, on October 31, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 500,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Jordan. The Chinese Ambassador to Jordan Chen Chuandong and Jordanian Minister of Health Firas Hawari attended the handover ceremony for the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government at a vaccination center in Amman on November 4, 2021.

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 October 2021 donation as $9 million.