Chinese Government donates 200,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $3.6 million in May 2021

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 3.2 million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ecuador. The Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Ecuador Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility on May 29, 2021. This donation came alongside 500,000 other vaccines purchased by the government of Ecuador, for a total of 700,00 vaccines delivered. Then, on October 30, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 500,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ecuador. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 2.5 million donated Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Ecuador on May 17, 2022.

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1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single 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 May 2021 donation as $3.6 million.

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