Overview

Chinese government donates 500,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine as humanitarian aid and 40,000 doses through COVAX program to Kyrgyzstan in August 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$896,322

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•Kyrgyz RepublicDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Kyrgyz RepublicSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Pipeline: Commitment

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Aug 27, 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 Kyrgyzstan

Implementing agencies

State-owned companies

China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (Sinopharm)

Loan description

Chinese government donates 500,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine as humanitarian aid and 40,000 doses through COVAX program to Kyrgyzstan in August 2021

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On August 27, 2021, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Yyldyz Bakashova, and the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Du Dewen, reached an agreement at a bilateral meeting that 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 Sinopharm vaccine will be donated to Kyrgyzstan as humanitarian aid and 40,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine through the COVAX program. These vaccines will be used to improve COVID-19 prevention efforts in Kyrgyzstan. The monetary value of this donation is worth 9.7 million USD.

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 $9.72 million.