River trade Loses R $182.8 million with Rain

The shopping venues of Rio de Janeiro had a loss estimated at R $182.8 million with damage caused by heavy rain last Monday (08, according to a survey of the Swiss Institute of research and analysis (IFec/RJ). The research shows that 76% of businesses were affected in some way, either by lack of staff in the next few days, depending on the difficulty of travel in the city, or by flooding and problems in the physical structure of the store. According to the survey, most respondents will take a month (54.9%) up to three months (20.4%) to recover the loss. Among the affected establishments, the majority (64.1%) had already had injury with rainfall of the day on February 6 this year.