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Due to the current covid-19 pandemic, Porto City Hall will not hold the traditional São João celebrations, in which millions of people take part, as it poses a potential risk to public health.

Lara Luís, an artist sketcher from Porto, challenges everyone to sketch, even those who think they are not good at it! Take a look at her work on Facebook and on Instagram and make your draw!

STCP - The Society of Collective Transports of Porto announced it will run on a "Contingency timetable", with changes in bus travel frequencies and timetables in the scope of the contingency measures to fight Covid-19, starting on 6th April.

A pilot experiment of environmental education distance workshops by the environment municipal services kicked off on 1st April with a group of students form a study centre in town. All 12 planned sessions are part of the Environmental Education of the Municipality of Port, which is being adapted to current contingent situation.

Several entities in the city are now joining efforts to expand and enhance the city's responses on social challenges, such as Mercadona that supplies the solidarity canteen at the Temporary Reception Shelter Joaquim Urbano.

The municipal company Águas do Porto lab has carried out 940 tests of the drinking water in the city, since the contingency plan was put in place and the "safe water" index was 99.85%.

The first ten out of the 50 ventilators that Porto City Hall purchased in the city of Shenzhen to the hospitals of Santo António and São João are to be deployed from Hong Kong and delivered to Porto these next days.

Porto is the first city to deploy Covid-19 testing to the elderly from nursing homes as this response is strengthened by 5000 tests offered to Porto City Hall by Fosun Foundation and Gestifute.

This is the most massive outdoor campaign ever promoted by Porto City Hall, with 700 mupis scattered all over the city to support lock down Governments measures.

Tenders for conceptional affordable housing projects for Lordelo do Ouro were published today in the Diário da República, about one week after the Executive Meeting took place, where the proposition was unanimously approved.