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Chinese Government donates 3 million Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $54 million in November 2022

¥54M RMB

Funder	Unspecified Chinese Government Institution
Recipient Organization	Government of Zimbabwe
Country	Zimbabwe
Start Date	Jan 01, 2022
End Date	Jan 07, 2033
Duration	4,024 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	AidData Chinese Aid
Grant ID	`95675`

Grant Description

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 7 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe.

The Chinese Government delivered 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe on February 15, 2021 (Record ID#95670).

Then, on March 16, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 200,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe (Record ID#95671).

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China delivered an additional 100,000 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Zimbabwe Defence Forces on May 17, 2021 (Record ID#95672).

Then, on September 26, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered another 500,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe (Record ID#95673).

Several months later, on December 20, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 1 million donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Zimbabwe (Record ID#95674).

Then, on November 25, 2022, the Government of Zimbabwe received another shipment of 3 million donated Sinopharm vaccine doses from the Chinese Government (Record ID#95675).

At a formal handover ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Guo Shaochun delivered the donation on behalf of Peng Liyuan, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, for the women, children and teenagers of Zimbabwe to Auxillia Mnangagwa, the wife of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

These 3 million vaccines were among the 10 million pledged to be donated by the Chinese government in 2022, per the Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe (captured via Record ID#105072). However, no evidence has been identified for the handover of the remaining 7 million vaccines pledged.

📋 Staff Comments

1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single Sinopharm/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 February 2021 donation as $3.6 million.

📚 Sources & References

Coronavirus: Zimbabwe says China to donate 10 million doses of vaccine in 2022
Valuation of donations of excess COVID-19 vaccine doses to developing countries in ODA – update for 2022 donations
Zimbabwean president thanks China for additional donation of 10 mln COVID-19 vaccines
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