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Overview

Chinese Government donates 800,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $14.4 million in March 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$13,278,840
Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•NepalDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•NepalSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2021
Start (actual)
Mar 29, 2021
End (actual)
Mar 29, 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 Nepal

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Nepal

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 800,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $14.4 million in March 2021

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 7.4 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nepal. The Chinese Government delivered 800,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nepal on March 29, 2021. Then, on June 1, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 800,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines and the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government delivered another 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nepal. Then, on November 2, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered an additional 1.6 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Nepal. Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi, and Birodh Khatiwada, Nepal’s Minister for Health and Population in Nepal, attended the vaccine handover ceremony in Kathmandu. Then, between March 26, 2022 and March 29, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 4 million donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nepal.

Staff comments

1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single Sinopharm/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 $14.4 million. 2. The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China.