Overview

Chinese Government donates 1.5 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $27 million in February 2022

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$25,512,817

Commitment Year•2022Country of Activity•TunisiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•TunisiaSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2022

Start (planned): Feb 23, 2022

Start (actual): Feb 22, 2022

End (planned): Feb 23, 2022

End (actual): Feb 22, 2022

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 Tunisia

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Tunisia

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 1.5 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $27 million in February 2022

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 1.7 million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tunisia. The Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tunisia on March 25, 2021. At the vaccine handover ceremony, the Chinese Ambassador to Tunisia Zhang Jianguo was present to the donation to the Tunisian Minister of Health Sudu Mehdi. Then, on February 22, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered another 1.5 million donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tunisia.

Staff comments

1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single xx 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 2022 donation as $27 million.