China spent 150 billion yuan ($21.5 billion) in 2021 and 2022 to vaccinate the population against COVID-19. newspaper reports South China Morning Post Citing data from the National Health Security Administration (NHSA).
The NHSA said in a statement that the most commonly used inactivated vaccines in China (Sinovac, CanSino and Zifivax) cost an average of 16 yuan per dose. The newspaper also states that the weighted average purchase price for a single dose of Pfizer and Moderna in the United States is $20.69.
In addition, the state health insurance fund spent 4.3 billion yuan on nucleic acid tests, but this is only a small part of the cost, as local governments have been paying for the test since May 2022, underlining the SCMP. According to him, Guangdong, China’s wealthiest and largest province, spent 71.13 billion yuan in 2022 to fight the coronavirus, which accounts for more than 5% of the province’s total financial expenditures.
On March 10, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that discloses data on the emergence of COVID-19. According to the document, US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes is required to “declassify information regarding the origin of COVID-19.” The document acknowledges that the coronavirus pandemic may have started at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. US President Joe Biden doing this He did not accept decision to sign the bill.