Overview

Chinese Government donates 1 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $18 million on November 21, 2021

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$16,598,549

Commitment Year•2021Country of Activity•MyanmarDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•MyanmarSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Nov 21, 2021

Start (actual): Nov 21, 2021

End (actual): Nov 21, 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

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Myanmar (Burma)

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Myanmar (Burma)

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 1 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $18 million on November 21, 2021

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On November 21, 2021, 1 million Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines and 1.5 million needles arrived at Yangon International Airport, donated by 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 third of three batches of donations in November 2021, which totaled 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.

Staff comments

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.