A first quarantine center has already been installed in a park, far from the city, while two other parks are ready to receive other patients.
Authorities said they were having trouble finding places willing to accommodate medical teams working in isolated treatment centers where the first patients are received.
According to the Chinese government, the virus has already killed 56 people in China and infected more than 2,000, a contamination that is expected to accelerate in the coming weeks.
The virus was initially detected last month in a seafood market in the suburbs of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, which is also an important center for domestic and international transport, but has since spread to several Chinese provinces.
The disease was identified as a new type of coronavirus, similar to atypical pneumonia, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which between 2002 and 2003 killed 650 people in China, more than 300 of them in Hong Kong, traumatizing one of the most densely populated world.
Coronavirus cases have, however, been detected in the United States, France, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and Nepal.
In Portugal, the Directorate-General for Health reported today that the suspected case of infection under observation in Lisbon was negative, after laboratory tests.
This is a man who had returned from Wuhan on Saturday and was admitted to the Curry Cabral Hospital in a stable situation.
Symptoms associated with infection caused by the coronavirus with the provisional name 2019-nCoV are more intense than a flu and include fever, pain, general malaise and breathing difficulties such as shortness of breath.
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