Chinese Government donates 2.2 million Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $39.6 million in January 2022

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Then, on January 20, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 2.2 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia. 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. 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.