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Porto is producing one thousand masks a day and the first lot is delivered today

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Miguel Nogueira

Rui Moreira announced this morning that the local company, with which Porto City Hall coordinate the production of individual protection masks and surgical masks is "already producing one thousand masks a day". 

The first lot will be delivered today. There are two other companies that have shown interest in producing this type of material. That situation is being assessed and the possibility is that they will very rapidly be in condition to start producing.

The entrepreneur who contacted the Mayor's office has set a production unit that can successfully produce a large quantity of masks in record time, circa one thousand per day.

"We were informed that if we are able to import a machine that exists in Japan, it wold be possible to produce four times or fivefold faster", informed Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira.

"Two other companies wish to advance the production of this type of material, and are asking for technical references", stated the Head of the Mayor's Office, Nuno Santos, to reporters.

So far, as Nuno Santos recalled "there was only one type of factory that produce this protective material; now we have two, with this in Campanhã, which has acquired the necessary raw material and adjusted its production to the municipality and the population's needs".