Chinese Government donates 800,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses worth $14.4 million in December 2021 to the Government of Nicaragua

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nicaragua. On December 9, 2021, the Government of Nicaragua suspended its diplomatic relations with the Republic of China ("Taiwan") and restored its diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China ("China"). Three days later, on December 12, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nicaragua. Then, on December 24, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 800,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Nicaragua. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 2 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Nicaragua on October 1, 2022.

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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 December 24, 2021 donation as $14.4 million.

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