Three new cases in Porto and the city is slowly but confidently getting off to a flying (re)start

Porto is adapting and functioning as it calmly resets the "new" normal. These past few days, the city of Porto counted three new covid-19 cases and small businesses start reopening will all necessary precautions. 

Under permanent Municipal Police watch, today, the majority of 200 square metres (or less) stores, in the city's main shopping streets were open and adapting to the new operating conditions.

Alcohol gel, masks, lines in the ground and signs by the doors are now common. And customers are arriving, as well. Almost all business activities sectors are running and only large stores and shopping centres remain closed.

 Many people are using masks on the streets, although some people don't. Downtown stores in Porto sell masks and some are quite amusing.

Porto City Hall is loosely following this restart of operations and offers a set of measures so that citizens and companies can safely return to the "new normalcy" period.

The Municipality of Porto also provides a micro-site on Covid-19, with all the measures taken in Porto. For more info on this, please go to covid19.porto.pt/.

Porto was the first municipality in the country to have identified infected patients with Covid-19; these people had travelled to Italy, where a footwear fair took place last February. But the municipality was also the first to take action to fight the pandemic.

For over a month, Porto was the municipality that reported most Covid-19 cases, but now it is the third, behind Lisbon and Vila Nova de Gaia. In the past 72 hours, there were only 3 reported cases and last week only 35, which makes Porto the city that is getting off to a flying start regarding the current pandemic.