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The Boston Globe documented that the occupancy charge in Boston and Cambridge fell to less than 26% last yr, driving revenue per accessible room — the functionality evaluate utilized in the business — down additional than 80%, according to the hotel marketing consultant Pinnacle Advisory Team.

Only New York fared worse. The area’s hotels are projected to hit 42% occupancy this yr, fifty percent of what it was in 2019, whilst hotel revenues aren’t predicted to get back again to pre-pandemic amounts until finally 2025.

About 8,000 lodge personnel in the place are still out of perform. Extra than a dozen inns in Boston and Cambridge continue to be shut, which includes the 1,200-area Sheraton Boston Hotel, the most significant assets in the town.

RAMALLAH, West Financial institution — The Palestinian Authority obtained a shipment of 100,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine donated by China.

Health Minister Mai al-Kaila claimed the Sinopharm vaccines that arrived in Ramallah will “greatly lead to speeding up the community vaccination marketing campaign.”

Previously this month the PA received 62,000 coronavirus vaccine doses as a result of a Environment Health Firm partnership created to assistance poor nations. The PA has also been given 2,000 doses from Israel and 10,000 doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine. Authorities in the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas, have acquired 60,000 doses from a political rival of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is based in the United Arab Emirates.