Local authorities in central China's Wuhan City plan to send supervisory groups to prisons in the city.

The groups will supervise the problems in the prevention and control of COVID-19 and curb the spread of the virus in the prisons, said Wang Zhonglin, secretary of the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Saturday. 

China's Hubei Province reported 423 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, including 420 cases from Wuhan. 

On the same day, 45 more deaths were reported in the province while 2,492 patients were discharged from hospitals after a full recovery.