Chinese Government donates 3.2 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $57.6 million in September 2021 (Linked to Project ID#94808)

On February 10, 2021, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed a donation of 200,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses (worth an estimated $3.6 million) on a phone call with Algerian Foreign Minister Boukadoum. The vaccines arrived on February 24, 2021 and were handed over in a ceremony at Algeria's Boufarik military airport (as captured via Project ID#94808). Then, in September 2021, the Chinese Government donated 3.2 million doses of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine worth an estimated $57.6 million (as captured via Project ID#97169).

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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 September 2021 donation as $57.6 million.

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