Chinese Government donates 500,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $9 million in September 2021

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 7 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe. The Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe on February 15, 2021 (Project ID#95670). Then, on March 16, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe (Project ID#95671). The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China delivered an additional 100,000 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Zimbabwe Defence Forces on May 17, 2021 (Project ID#95672). Then, on September 26, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 500,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe (Project ID#95673). Several months later, on December 20, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 1 million donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe (Project ID#95674). Then, on November 25, 2022, the Government of Zimbabwe received another shipment of 3 million donated Sinopharm vaccine doses from the Chinese Government (Project ID#95675). At a formal handover ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Guo Shaochun delivered the donation on behalf of Peng Liyuan, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, for the women, children and teenagers of Zimbabwe to Auxillia Mnangagwa, the wife of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single Sinopharm/Sinovac 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 $3.6 million.

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