China is considering setting up a future pandemic agency during the post-Covid-19 health reform, according to the official, who did not know.

Chinese news agency Caixin today quoted two unnamed government officials and three senior health experts as saying Beijing is considering a plan to establish a new disease response and control agency, to control

The agency does not yet have an official name and is referred to by officials as the "major epidemic control bureau", which may be pooled from multiple units of the National Health Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

China, where Covid-19 started late last year, has been largely under control of the epidemic but has recently reported some local outbreaks in several cities.

CNN on November 30 released 117 pages of documents classified as "internal documents, please keep confidential" of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Hubei province, central China, showing

Documents from October 2019 to April 2020 also show that the healthcare system is inflexible, limited and not well equipped to cope with the crisis.