Central China's Hubei Province reshuffled the composition and adjusted the duties of the provincial epidemic prevention and control headquarters on Sunday.

The adjustment was announced during a meeting of the provincial prevention and control headquarters commanders, in an attempt to optimize functions of overall planning, coordination and implementation, and to ensure rapid response and efficient operation. Ying Yong, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), presided over the meeting.

The headquarters will be composed of five work groups – office and comprehensive group, medical treatment and disease control group, supply and market security group, publicity group, and social stability group.

Hubei authorities announced on January 22 the establishment of the headquarters previously led by former Party chief Jiang Liangchao for the prevention and control of the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.