Chinese Government donates 200,000 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $3.6 million to Zanzibar in January 2022

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 5.565 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tanzania.

The Chinese Government delivered 3 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tanzania on July 14, 2021 (see AidData Record ID #95624).

Two weeks later, on July 31, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered a batch of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine doses and syringes to Tanzania’s Zanzibar Revolutionary Government (see AidData Record ID #92844). The number of vaccine doses and syringes that were donated is unknown.

Zanzibar Trade and Industrial Development Minister Omar Shaban and Chinese Consul General in Zanzibar Zhang Zhisheng attended the handover ceremony at the airport.

The Chinese Government delivered an additional 1,065,500 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Tanzania on October 8, 2021 (see AidData Record ID #92778). The package arrived at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Tanzanian government held a grand welcoming ceremony at Julius Nyerere International Airport on the same day.

Minister Counselor Xu Chen of the Chinese Embassy in Tanzania, Minister of Health Gwajima of Tanzania, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sokoine of Tanzania and other government officials, UN Resident Coordinator Milisik, heads of diplomatic missions in Tanzania and diplomatic envoys from many countries in Tanzania attended the event.

Then, on November 1, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 500,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Tanzania (see AidData Record ID #92824). A handover ceremony took place in Dar es Salaam at the Julius Nyerere Airport. Chinese Ambassador Chen Mingjian, Minister of Health Dr.

Gwajima, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health of Tanzania Macubi, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tanzania Sokoine attended the ceremony.

Several months later, on January 26, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 800,000 donated Sinopharm vaccine doses to the Government of Tanzania (see AidData Record ID #95625).

Two days later, on January 28, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated Sinovac COVID-19 doses to Tanzania’s Zanzibar Revolutionary Government (see AidData Record ID #95626).

The vaccines were handed over to a Representative of the Zanzibar Revolutionary Government, Minister for Education and Vocational Training Simai Mohammed Said, by the Chinese Consul General in Zanzibar Zhang Zhisheng at the Abeid Amani Karume International Airport.