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Health warning issued for high ozone levels

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The Coordination and Regional Development Commission of Lisbon and Tagus Valley has detected harmful ozone concentration levels in Olivais and Alverca. Authorities warn that these levels exceed safety thresholds and may pose risks to public health.

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Health warning issued for high ozone levels

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1904: Henrique de Barros, the agronomist who taught for decades at Lisbon's Instituto Superior de Agronomia, is born in Coimbra. Elected for the Socialist Party after the Carnation Revolution, he presided over the Constituent Assembly that drafted the democratic Constitution of 1976.
2018: Death in Lisbon of Odette Ferreira, aged 93, the microbiologist who helped identify HIV-2. In 1985 she flew to the Pasteur Institute in Paris with patients' blood samples hidden in her coat to keep them warm, and as head of the national AIDS programme she launched the pharmacy needle exchange 'Diz Não a Uma Seringa em Segunda Mão' ('Say no to a second-hand syringe').

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1571: A Holy League fleet under Don John of Austria destroys the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Lepanto in the Gulf of Patras, the last great galley battle in history and a check on Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean.

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