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Chinese Government donates 739,200 Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $13.3 million in August 2021

$13.31M USD

Funder	Unspecified Chinese Government Institution
Recipient Organization	Government of the Philippines
Country	Philippines
Start Date	Jan 01, 2021
End Date	Jan 29, 2033
Duration	4,411 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	AidData Chinese Aid
Grant ID	`96047`

Grant Description

In 2021, the Chinese Government donated approximately 5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of the Philippines.

The Chinese Government delivered 600,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of the Philippines on February 28, 2021.

At least 100,000 of these doses were donated by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China to the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Then, on March 24, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 400,000 donated doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of the Philippines.

Then, on August 20, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 739,200 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of the Philippines.

One day later, on August 21, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 260,800 donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of the Philippines.

Then, on October 24, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 1 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of the Philippines.

Then, on December 14, 2021, the Chinese Government delivered 2 million donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of the Philippines.

📋 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 August 20, 2021 donation as $13,305,600.

📚 Sources & References

Valuation of donations of excess COVID-19 vaccine doses to developing countries in ODA – update for 2022 donations, 2 million more Sinovac COVID-19 doses donated by China arrive in the Philippines
Arrival of One Million Doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 Vaccines Donated by the People’s Republic of China (via Video Teleconference)
China’s Sinopharm donation much appreciated: PRRD
China-donated Sinovac vaccines arrive in PH
PH receives another batch of China-donated Covid-19 vaccine
Arrival of 1M procured Sinovac, 2nd batch of Sinopharm donation
PH
China strengthen pandemic response cooperation with arrival of donated Sinopharm vaccines, 𝗕𝗢𝗖 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝟰𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗱𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗰 𝗩𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
Arrival of Sinovac vaccine, a big step in overcoming pandemic, says President Duterte
PH to get 2M more China-donated Sinovac doses
China to donate 2M more Sinovac doses
Add’l 2M doses of China-donated Sinovac arrive in Manila
PH welcomes China-donated Sinopharm vaccines 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.