Chinese Government donates 4 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $72 million in March 2022

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 7.4 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nepal. The Chinese Government delivered 800,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nepal on March 29, 2021. Then, on June 1, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 800,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines and the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government delivered another 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nepal. Then, on November 2, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered an additional 1.6 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Nepal. Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi, and Birodh Khatiwada, Nepal’s Minister for Health and Population in Nepal, attended the vaccine handover ceremony in Kathmandu. Then, between March 26, 2022 and March 29, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 4 million donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nepal.

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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 March 2022 donation as $72 million. 2. The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China.

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