Grant Description
On March 29, 2022, Deng Boqing, the Vice-Chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), attended the departure ceremony of a new shipment of 5 million doses of China-donated COVID-19 vaccines to Cambodia.
This donation appears to be a portion of the 20 million vaccines pledged to Cambodia by President Xi Jinping earlier in March 2022.
The vaccines arrived in a batch of 1.5 million on March 29, 2022 at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and another of 3.5 million on March 30, 2022 on 2 additional planes. The monetary value of this donation is 90 million USD.
In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 11.3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Cambodia.
📋 Staff Comments
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 March 2022 donation as $90 million USD.
📚 Sources & References
- CIDCA vice-chairman: China will continue to support Cambodian anti-pandemic fight, narrow world’s vaccine gap
- China commits to donate 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Cambodia
- New arrival of China-donated jabs helps Cambodia's COVID-19 vaccination
- China pledges 20 million Covid vaccinations to Cambodia
- China remains as the leading supplier of COVID-19 vaccines for Cambodia
- More China-donated COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Cambodia as kingdom looks to reopen economy
- Cambodia receives 3rd batch of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine
- China gifts Sinopharm jabs through military
- Red Cross
- Prime Minister Hun Sen Accepts One Million Doses of China’s Sinopharm Vaccine
- Cambodia receives 3rd batch of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine
- China Provides 500,000 More Doses Of Sinopharm To Cambodia
- PM Hun Sen to personally receive two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China tomorrow
- More China-donated COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Cambodia as kingdom looks to reopen economy
- SE Asia gets more vaccines, equipment from China amid Delta fight, 1.5 Million Sinovac Doses Arrive in Cambodia at $15M Cost
- Cambodia receives 3rd batch of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, 3rd shipment of China-donated vaccine arrives in Cambodia
- New arrival of China-donated jabs helps Cambodia's COVID-19 vaccination
- Arrival of China-donated jabs helps Cambodia’s COVID-19 fight with more than 88 percent fully vaccinated
- Speech at handover ceremony of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China to Cambodia
- China donates more COVID-19 vaccines to Cambodia
- New batch of two million doses of China-donated vaccine arrives in Cambodia, 2M doses of China-aided COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Cambodia
- One million Sinovac vaccine doses arrive, more on the way
- Proposed Loan and Administration of Loan Kingdom of Cambodia: Cambodia Rapid Immunization Support Project under the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility
- Cambodia receives new batch of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines
- Another 400,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines, funded by the Chinese government, will arrive in Cambodia tomorrow
- Cambodia receives first batch of China's COVID-19 vaccine donations
- Cambodia gets first COVID-19 vaccine from key ally China, 700K China jabs to land Mar 31
- DAC Working Party on Development Finance Statistics
- Some 3.5 Million Doses of China-aided COVID-19 Vaccine Arrive in Cambodia
- Cambodia to Maintain COVID-19 Vaccine Stock
- Over 1.5M Covid doses from China touch down
- New arrival of China-donated jabs helps Cambodia's COVID-19 vaccination
- Roundup: New arrival of China-donated jabs helps Cambodia's COVID-19 vaccination
- Five million China vaccines arrive over two-day period Loan applications and disbursements are still being received and processed as the projects continue to evolve. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation are in place to ensure project continuity.