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

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$3,319,710
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
Apr 25, 2021
End (actual)
Apr 25, 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 200,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $3.6 million in April 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 April 2021 donation as $3.6 million.