The document, according to information published by DGS on its website, is being prepared based on the existing contingency plan.

The new instrument will be called “National Plan for Preparing and Responding to Disease by a new Coronavirus (COVID-19).

In this sense, the list of specialists who are part of the team created to respond to the outbreak, under the name of “Task Force”, was updated.

The “Task Force” has the mission of “centralizing all epidemiological information and scientific evidence relevant to risk assessment and management in order to issue guidelines and recommendations for its containment, being also responsible for communicating the risk”, reads in the document.

Other specialists may be called upon to collaborate, either individually or as representatives of services or bodies, dependent on the Ministry of Health or other institutions.

In the context of the epidemic caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), originating in the city of Wuhan, province of Hubei, China, which spread to other continents, a ´Task Force ', coordinated by DGS, that promotes the operationalisation and adoption of measures for the prevention and control of infection, provided for in the contingency plan, was activated.