Overview

Chinese Government donates 200,000 Sinopharm vaccines worth $3.6 million in February 2021 (Linked to Record ID#97169)

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$3,319,710

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•AlgeriaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•AlgeriaSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Feb 10, 2021

Start (actual): Feb 24, 2021

End (actual): Feb 24, 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 Algeria

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 200,000 Sinopharm vaccines worth $3.6 million in February 2021 (Linked to Record ID#97169)

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On February 10, 2021, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed a donation of 200,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses (worth an estimated $3.6 million) on a phone call with Algerian Foreign Minister Boukadoum. The vaccines arrived on February 24, 2021 and were handed over in a ceremony at Algeria's Boufarik military airport (as captured via Record ID#94808). Then, in September 2021, the Chinese Government donated 3.2 million doses of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine worth an estimated $57.6 million (as captured via Record ID#97169).

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 February 2021 donation as $3.6 million.