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

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government and the Chinese Red Cross Society donated approximately 14 million doses of Sinopharm and Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society. The Chinese Government delivered 300,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia on March 29, 2021 (see project ID#95864). Then, on May 13, 2021, China's Ministry of Defense delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to Ethiopia's Ministry of Defense (see project ID#95866). Approximately one month later, on June 19, 2021, the Chinese Red Cross Society delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (see project ID#95868). Two months later, on August 19, 2021, China's Ministry of Defense delivered an additional 200,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to Ethiopia's Ministry of Defense (see project ID#95869). On August 23, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 300,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health (see project ID#95944). Approximately one month later, on October 24, 2021, Chinese Government delivered 800,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health (see project ID#95946). Then, in December 2021, the Chinese Government announced that it had donated 2 million additional doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia via COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) — a worldwide initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines directed by the GAVI vaccine alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF (see project ID#95947). Then, on January 20, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 2.2 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia (see project ID#96127). The Chinese Government delivered an additional 10 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health on June 27, 2022 (see project ID#96143). According to the Chinese Government, its cumulative donations of Covid-19 vaccine doses to Ethiopia amounted to 500,000 doses as of June 2021, 1.8 million doses as of October 2021, 5 million doses as of December 2021, 7 million doses as of January 2022, 9.7 million doses as of March 2022, and 14 million doses as of June 2022.

Additional details

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 August 2021 donation as $5.4 million.

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