Chinese Government donates 150,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses worth $2.7 million in July 2021

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 1.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Syria. The Chinese Government delivered 150,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Syria in April 2021. Then, on July 29, 2021, the Chinese Red Cross Society delivered 150,000 donated doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Syria. The Chinese Government delivered an additional 500,000 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Syria in November 2021. Then, on January 3, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 1 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to the Government of Syria.

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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 July 2021 donation as $2.7 million.

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