Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who leads the central government group guiding the epidemic control work in Hubei Province, inspects Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, February 2, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)

The central government team guiding the epidemic control work in coronavirus-hit Hubei Province has left the province for Beijing on Monday at the approval of Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

It comes after all COVID-19 patients in hospitals in the central Chinese province were discharged on Sunday.

The central government team, led by Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, was deployed to Hubei on January 27.