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

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. Then, 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. 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.

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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 November 2021 donation as $9 million.

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