Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan on Sunday urged hospitals to receive as many patients as they can and not to miss one single patient.

Sun, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, is currently leading a team in central China's Hubei Province, the center of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) outbreak, in efforts to guide the epidemic control work there.

Sun called for concentrated efforts to accommodate the maximum number of patients in the shortest time and resolutely cut off the virus transmission channel.

She proposed to continue to increase the number of makeshift hospitals and designated medical institutions, and to transform the provincial and municipal party schools as well as some college dormitories into quarantine sites.

The team came to Huanggang City on Sunday morning and visited the center for disease control and prevention.

Xiaowan Village in the city has taken strict prevention measures and so far it has no record of patient infected by the coronavirus. Sun praised the village and encourage it to keep the record.

The team held a symposium on Sunday afternoon to listen to experts' research and judgment on the current trends in Wuhan city, Hubei Province as well as the whole country, and to learn about the progress of integrated treatment of traditional Chinese and western medicine in critically ill patients, and the difficulties existing in the process of the admission and transfer of patients.