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

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 750,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Iraq. The Chinese Government delivered 50,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Iraq on March 2, 2021. Then, on April 11, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Iraq. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 500,000 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Iraq in August 2021. Then, in October 2021, the Chinese Government donated another batch of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines (including an unknown number of doses) to the Government of Iraq.

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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 August 2021 donation as $9 million.

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