Chinese Government donates 200,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses worth USD $3.6 million in September 2021

On September 18, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Kenya. This donation was made to support Kenya’s COVID-19 response efforts. The monetary value of this donation is USD $3.6 million. Susan Mochache, the Principal Secretary of Kenya's Ministry of Health, and Zhang Yijun, the Minister Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Kenya, attended the vaccine handover ceremony at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

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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 September 2021 donation as $3.6 million.

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