Overview

Government of China donates the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines to Tunisia in August 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$6,639,420

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•TunisiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•TunisiaSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Aug 2, 2021

Start (actual): Aug 2, 2021

End (actual): Aug 2, 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

Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Loan description

Government of China donates the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines to Tunisia in August 2021

Narrative

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Project narrative

On August 2nd, 2021, Ambassador Zhang Jianguo, Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jerendi, and Major General Vergani were present for the handover ceremony of the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from China to Tunisia. This batch contained 400,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine. In combination with the first batch, China has exported a total of 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Tunisia.

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 August 2021 donation as $7.2 million.