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Chinese Government donates 2 million Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses — via COVAX — worth $36 million in December 2021

$36M USD

Funder	Unspecified Chinese Government Institution
Recipient Organization	Government of Ethiopia
Country	Ethiopia
Start Date	Jan 01, 2021
End Date	Sep 25, 2029
Duration	3,189 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	AidData Chinese Aid
Grant ID	`95947`

Grant Description

In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government and the Chinese Red Cross Society donated approximately 14 million doses of Sinopharm and Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society.

The Chinese Government delivered 300,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia on March 29, 2021 (see Record ID#95864).

Then, on May 13, 2021, China's Ministry of Defense delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to Ethiopia's Ministry of Defense (see Record ID#95866).

Approximately one month later, on June 19, 2021, the Chinese Red Cross Society delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (see Record ID#95868).

Two months later, on August 19, 2021, China's Ministry of Defense delivered an additional 200,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to Ethiopia's Ministry of Defense (see Record ID#95869).

On August 23, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 300,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health (see Record ID#95944).

Approximately one month later, on October 24, 2021, Chinese Government delivered 800,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health (see Record ID#95946).

Then, in December 2021, the Chinese Government announced that it had donated 2 million additional doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia via COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) — a worldwide initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines directed by the GAVI vaccine alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF (see Record ID#95947).

Then, on January 20, 2022, the Chinese Government delivered 2.2 million donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Ethiopia (see Record ID#96127).

The Chinese Government delivered an additional 10 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health on June 27, 2022 (see Record ID#96143).

According to the Chinese Government, its cumulative donations of Covid-19 vaccine doses to Ethiopia amounted to 500,000 doses as of June 2021, 1.8 million doses as of October 2021, 5 million doses as of December 2021, 7 million doses as of January 2022, 9.7 million doses as of March 2022, and 14 million doses as of June 2022.

📋 Staff Comments

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 December 2021 donation as $36 million.

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DAC Working Party on Development Finance Statistics 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.

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