成立中央应对疫情工作领导小组
2020年1月25日，中共中央政治局常委会召开专题会议，决定成立中央应对新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情工作领导小组（以下简称中央应对疫情工作领导小组）。
中央应对疫情工作领导小组是中共中央根据全国防控新冠肺炎疫情的紧迫需要成立的决策指挥机构，在中共中央政治局常委会领导下开展工作，旨在加强对全国疫情防控的统一领导、统一指挥。中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理李克强任领导小组组长，中共中央政治局常委王沪宁任副组长。
1月26日，李克强主持召开中央应对疫情工作领导小组首次会议。会议指出，当前正处于疫情防控关键期，各级党委政府要把思想和行动统一到习近平总书记重要讲话和中共中央政治局常委会会议精神上来，把疫情防控作为当前最重要的工作来抓，采取更果断、更有力有序、更科学周密的举措，有效遏制疫情蔓延。会议强调，要进一步加强湖北省和武汉市疫情防控，中央向湖北派出指导组，推动加强防控一线工作，同时调配全国资源，优先保障湖北省和武汉市急需的医护力量和医疗物资，确保生活必需品供应。
2月22日，中央应对疫情工作领导小组印发《关于全面落实进一步保护关心爱护医务人员若干措施的通知》，就进一步保护关心爱护医务人员提出十方面举措。截至2月24日，中央应对疫情工作领导小组先后召开11次会议研究部署疫情防控工作。
The Central Leading Group for COVID-19 Prevention and Control
At its meeting on January 25, 2020, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee decided to form a Leading Group of the CPC Central Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control ("Central Leading Group for COVID-19 Prevention and Control" for short).
The Central Leading Group for COVID-19 Prevention and Control is the decision-making and command body set up by the CPC Central Committee in response to the urgent need for epidemic combat across the country. It works under the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and exercises unified leadership and command over epidemic prevention and control. Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and premier of the State Council, heads the group, and Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, serves as deputy head.
On January 26, Li Keqiang presided over the first meeting of the Central Leading Group for COVID-19 Prevention and Control. The meeting concluded that as epidemic prevention and control is currently in a critical stage, Party committees and governments at all levels must unify their thinking and actions by following the guiding principles of General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions and the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau. They must put epidemic prevention and control at the top of their current agenda, and take more decisive, more powerful and orderly, more scientific and thorough measures to effectively curb the spread of the virus.
To further tighten epidemic prevention and control in Hubei province and Wuhan city, the meeting decided to dispatch a Central Guiding Team there to promote the frontline work. It also decided to allocate resources nationwide to first meet the urgent need for medical workers and medical supplies in Hubei and Wuhan and to ensure the supply of daily necessities for the citizens there as the whole country is battling the virus.
On February 22, the Central Leading Group for COVID-19 Prevention and Control issued a document on protection and care for medical workers, putting forward 10 measures in detail. By February 24, the Central Leading Group for COVID-19 Prevention and Control had held 11 meetings to study and deploy epidemic prevention and control work.