Chinese Government donates 100,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $1.8 million in March 2021

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 700,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Gabon. The Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Gabon on March 12, 2021. Then, on April 9, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 300,000 donated doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Gabon. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 300,000 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Gabon on May 9, 2021. According to Hu Changchun, the Chinese Ambassador to Gabon, 200,000 doses were a gift from the Chinese Government to the Gabonese Government while 100,000 were a gift from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China to the Gabonese military.

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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 March 2021 donation as $1.8 million.

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