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Overview

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

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$8,299,275
Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•BelarusDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•BelarusSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Nov 11, 2021
Start (actual)
Nov 11, 2021
End (actual)
Nov 11, 2021

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • China Ministry of Health

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Belarus

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Belarus

Loan description

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

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On November 11, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 500,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Belarus. The delivery arrived via Il-76MD military transport aircraft at Machulishchi airfield from China. The same delivery included 1 million doses of Sinopharm vaccines that the Government of Belarus purchased. In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 2.1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Belarus. In February 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Belarus, captured in Record ID#96021. Two months later, in January 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 1.5 million donated and 1.5 million purchased doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Belarus, captured in Record ID#96023.

Staff comments

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 November 2021 donation as $9 million.