Chinese Government donates 1 million Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $18 million in August 2021

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 3.1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bangladesh. The Chinese Government delivered 500,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bangladesh on May 12, 2021. Then, on June 13, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 600,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bangladesh. Two months later, on August 13, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 1 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bangladesh. Then, on October 20, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 1 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Bangladesh.

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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 August 2021 donation as $18 million.

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