Chinese Government donates 1 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $18 million in December 2021

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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 (Record 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 (Record 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 (Record 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 (Record 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 (Record 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 (Record 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.