- La Balme-de-Sillingy is one of the first centers of contamination with coronavirus.
- The merchants are whipped by the Covid-19 crisis, their stores being deserted for fear of the virus.
- Traveling to the town on Tuesday, Laurent Wauquiez, LR chairman of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, announced an emergency plan for the city's economic players.
The call for help launched on social networks by traders has not escaped Laurent Wauquiez. This Tuesday, the president of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes went to La Balme-de-Sillingy, this small town in Haute-Savoie where one of the first coronavirus clusters is located in France.
The president LR went to meet several traders and craftsmen of the commune, deserted these last days by the customers, frightened by the Covid-19, and announced an emergency plan in favor of the economic actors. “Here at La Balme, traders suffer from the media's hyper-exposure to the coronavirus. I repeat: they are not plague victims ", underlined on his Twitter account Laurent Wauquiez, recalling that the economic health of the city" was undoubtedly weakened by the spread of the virus ".
Aid of 10,000 euros
"The traders we met suffered at least losses of 50 to 70% of their turnover," said one in the entourage of the president of Aura. To help them, Laurent Wauquiez promised "aid of 10,000 euros" to the craftsmen, traders and liberal professions affected, to allow them to replenish their cash. They will also be able to benefit from a “zero rate loan, repayable over two years, for which the Region will stand surety,” adds the regional council.
For artisans, traders and liberal professions affected by the #coronavirus, @auvergnerhalpes immediately sets up:
1) Cash refinancing of € 10,000.
2) Loans at zero rate, repayable over two years, for which the Region will stand surety. pic.twitter.com/851qesCoj1
Within ten days, economic players may file a file with a teleservice to benefit from these devices. And this, before the Region "votes the allocation of this aid during an extraordinary permanent commission organized in March, in order to intervene as quickly as possible with the economic actors of La Balme-de-Sillingy affected", adds Laurent Wauquiez's team.
Since the end of February, this city of 5,000 inhabitants has been making the headlines, due to an outbreak of coronavirus contamination observed on municipal territory. To limit the spread of the virus, the town hall, town halls and educational establishments were closed until March 14, inclusive. Until this date, pupils of the municipality are also not authorized to attend their schools if they are located outside La Balme-de-Sillingy.
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The series of contaminations, part of a resident returning from a professional trip to Lombardy (Italy), soon had significant repercussions on the frequentation of shops and places of life in the town. Disappointed and worried, traders launched last Thursday, as we said, a call for solidarity on social networks. Explaining that they were subjected to "media pressure and all the exchanges around the coronavirus", they invited the inhabitants to return to their shop so that the businesses could survive.
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