Society

The final step towards the conversion of the former Industrial Slaughterhouse into a business, cultural and social hub is taken. Porto City Hall has just won the action before the Institutional Court against the decision by the Court of Auditors (Tribunal de Contas). The works will be performed by Mota-Engil and the project is by famous Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, in partnership with the Portuguese by Ooda.

The Municipal Executive convenes next Monday, 27th April, via videoconference and one of the agenda items is the 80 thousand euros support to the two voluntary fire brigades in Porto, the Real Associação Humanitária dos Bombeiros Voluntários do Porto and the Associação Humanitária de Bombeiros Voluntários Portuenses.

Porto Municipal services of Environment launched three series of Environmental Education programmes on Youtube. The focus is the initiative "Stay home for now, we bring Nature to you!". This week, there is a new episode. Enjoy!

The Municipality of Porto launched a microsite on COVID-19 that brings together the measures agreed to control the pandemic, both at municipal and national level. In addition, it shares information of interest for citizens and companies. Refer to the platform via covid19.porto.pt to know how Porto City Hall and the city are facing this unprecedented crisis, as the microsite is designed to be intuitive and easy to operate.

The acceptance of the donation of the 30 ventilators to treat Covid-19 patients to Porto City Hall by the Jack Ma Foundation is one of the items in the working agenda for the Municipal Executive meeting on 27th April.

Rui Moreira visited the Porto Firefighter Station and the Municipal Police today, after welcoming the National Director of PSP (Public Police Authority), Magina da Silva. To all of them, Mayor Rui Moreira said "thank you".

The new Official Animal Assembly Centre is set and running in Campanhã, next door to the Municipal Greenhouse, as of early this week, the last animals were relocated in this facility.

This year, due to the pandemic and the Emergency State, the celebrations to mark the 1974 Revolution and the end of the dictatorship will not take to the streets, but the commission urges people to chant from windows.

This week, there are major films by French Directors at the Cinephile Quarantine. French Cancan (1954), by Jean Renoir, Casque d'Or ("Golden Helmet") by Jacques Becker and La Poison, by Sacha Guitry.

By the end of this week, all retirement homes, institutions that accommodate people with disabilities and shelter homes to the homeless in the city of Porto (official, formal, legal or illegal) will have been tested to the new coronavirus. In total, the city of Porto has tested 4.554 people of 87 institution within this programme, set up by Porto City Hall and unique in the country. The project is supported by hospitals and health centres, as well as a private foundation that offered test kit...