Chinese Government donates 300,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $5.4 million in August 2021

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 3.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia. A cooperation agreement was signed between China National Pharmaceutical Group and the Government of Bolivia on February 11, 2021. The Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bolivia on February 24, 2021. 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. Of these 300,000, 200,000 will be administered to the civilian population defined by the Ministry of Health and 100,000 will be for the active and passive Army of the Bolivian Armed Forces. 300,000 syringes were also donated. 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 August 2021 donation as $5.4 million.

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