Chinese Government donates 1 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $18 million on November 20, 2021

On November 20, 2021, 1 million Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines and 1.5 million needles arrived at Yangon International Airport from the Government of China. The vaccines are to be distributed across Myanmar in order to aid in vaccination efforts against COVID-19. This is the second of three batches of donations in November 2021, which total to 3 million vaccines. In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 23.7 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Myanmar.

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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 November 20, 2021 donation as $18 million.

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