Chinese Government donates 500,000 Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $9 million in October 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 Government of Ecuador on May 29, 2021 (see project ID #96260). Then, on October 30, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 500,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ecuador. The batch will go to the National Vaccine Bank, to be later distributed to the nine areas of the country and, from there, to the MSP health establishments and educational centers. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 2.5 million donated Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Ecuador on May 17, 2022 (see project ID #96266).

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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 October 2021 donation as $9 million.

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