Overview

Chinese Government donates 2 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $36 million in September 2022

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$34,017,089

Commitment Year•2022Country of Activity•MyanmarDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•MyanmarSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Sep 9, 2022

Start (actual): Sep 9, 2022

End (actual): Sep 9, 2022

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 2 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $36 million in September 2022

Narrative

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Project narrative

On September 9, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered an additional 2 million donated Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Myanmar. A handover ceremony was held at Yangon International Airport. In attendance were Zheng Zhihong, minister counselor of the Chinese Embassy to Myanmar, and Tun Min, deputy director-general of Yangon Regional Health Department. 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 June 2022 donation as $36 million.