コロナ対応の新補助金検討　苦境の中小に業態転換促す―政府

　政府が、新型コロナウイルス感染拡大に対応して業態転換に取り組む中小企業向けに新たな補助金制度の創設を検討していることが１９日、分かった。最大２００万円を支給する「持続化給付金」は来年１月１５日が申請期限。政府は新制度で打撃を受けた中小の本格的な事業再構築を促す。追加経済対策では持続化を上回る補助上限額を想定し、２０２０年度第３次補正予算案に盛り込む方向。年度内に運用を始めたい考えだ。（2020/11/19-21:16）

The Japanese government is considering creating a subsidy program to support small companies that are trying to convert to new businesses amid the novel coronavirus epidemic, it was learned Thursday.
   The new program will be included in the government's third supplementary budget for fiscal 2020, which ends next March, informed sources said. The government hopes to launch the program by the end of the current fiscal year.
   The coronavirus crisis is helping increase contactless services, with some restaurants switching to delivery services and lodging facilities starting to meet demand for teleworking.
   On the assumption that the economic and social conditions will not return to what they were before the coronavirus crisis, the government will use the new subsidy program to fully support business conversions and new business launches by small companies and self-employed people, according to the sources.
   Details of the new scheme will be fixed later, the sources said.