Central China's Hubei Province is allowed to extend the Spring Festival holiday, the leading group of the CPC Central Committee on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus outbreak announced on Friday at a meeting.  

Members of a military medical team work in the ICU (intensive care unit) of Wuchang Hospital of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Jan, 29, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)

Meanwhile, those who lived in Hubei and worked in other places will also be given a prolonged holiday and temporarily not return to their workplaces. School openings will also be postponed in the fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic.