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

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 3.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia. On February 11th , 2021, the Chinese Government and the Bolivian government signed a agreement for 500,000 Sinopharm vaccines to be delivered to Bolivia by February 28th (Source:180610). The Bolivian government purchased 400,000 doses and the Chinese government paid for 100,000 doses as a donation (Source:1805939). The shipment arrived early on February 24th, 2020. Then, on March 30, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia. Then, on August 17, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 300,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia. Then, on December 26, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 3.5 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia.

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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 February 2021 donation as $1.8 million.

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