Chinese Government donates 300,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $5.4 million in August 2021

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Sri Lanka. The Chinese Government delivered 600,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Sri Lanka on March 31, 2021 (see project ID#95884). Then, on May 25, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 500,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Sri Lanka (see project ID#95887). The Chinese Government delivered an additional 1 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Sri Lanka on June 6, 2021 (see project ID#95913). Then, on July 27, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 1.6 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Sri Lanka (see project ID#95046). One month later, on August 28, 2021, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China delivered 300,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Sri Lankan Armed Forces (see project ID#95918). Then, in September 2021, the Chinese Government announced that it would donate 1 million Sinovac doses to the Government of Sri Lanka in September 2021 (see project ID#95923). However, it is unclear if this batch of vaccines was ever delivered.

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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 August 2021 donation as $5.4 million.

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