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Aussie gov't expands loan scheme to help SMEs through COVID-19 crisis

Canberra, Jul 20 (Xinhua) The Australian government on Monday announced an expansion of the Coronavirus SME Guarantee Scheme to help small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) survive the pandemic.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Monday announced that the 40 billion Australian dollars (27.9 billion U.S. dollar) loan scheme will continue to run until June 2021, nine months after the planned end in September 2020.
Under the revised scheme businesses with a turnover of up to 50 million Australian dollars will be eligible to receive loans of up to 1 million Australian dollars (699,859 U.S. dollars), four times more than the previous cap of 250,000 Australian dollars (174,965 U.S. dollars).
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