The pneumonia outbreak in China that affected several children was not caused by new bacteria or viruses, such as COVID-19, Indonesia's Health Minister .
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on China to share more real-time information on Covid in the country as infections surge. Beijing has lifted most of the country's strict restrictions over the last few weeks, but cases have soared and several countries are now screening travelers from China. WHO said in a statement they
China's National Health Commission has announced it will no longer be publishing daily COVID-19 infection figures, as the virus rips through the population. "As of today, we will no longer be releasing daily statistics on the pandemic, with any data released by the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevent for the purposes of reference
According to the epidemic information reported by the National Health Commission of China on October 1, mainland China reported 106 new confirmed local cases of new coronary pneumonia and 549 local asymptomatic infections on September 30.