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WASHINGTON â President Joe Biden has made a Cinco de Mayo taco and enchilada run to highlight his administrationâs $28.6 billion program to help eateries that lost business because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden visited Taqueria Las Gemelas in Washington on Wednesday and ordered lunch. The restaurant is owned in part by Mexican immigrants and was a beneficiary of a pilot version of the restaurant relief program.
Biden says the restaurant industry was âbadly hurtâ by the pandemic. The aid for eateries is part of the administrationâs $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.
The White House says 186,200 restaurants, bars and other eligible businesses applied for the program over its first two days of accepting applications.
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WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island âCVS Health is now accepting walk-in customers for COVID-19 vaccinations at all 8,300 of its stores that are doling out shots.
The drugstore chain started accepting customers with no appointments this week. It also is offering same-day day appointments, which Walgreens started on Wednesday. Walgreens is also accepting walk-ins and expects to offer vaccines at all 9,200 of its U.S. stores by this weekend.
CVS Health is giving out vaccines at stores in 49 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. The company, which has nearly 10,000 retail locations, said it has given out more than 17 million doses through April.
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The coronavirus pandemic caused a 30% decline in direct spending by tourists in Wisconsin in 2020, but officials are optimistic the industry will rebound this year.
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7-year-old Hayley Contreras, left, wears a mask as she hangs on a rail as her family gets tickets for a boat tour Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, in the Wisconsin Dells. Angela Major/WPR
The coronavirus pandemic hit the state’s tourism industry particularly hard in 2020, with direct spending down nearly 30 percent.
Statewide, tourism was about a $13.6 billion dollar industry in 2019, but it dropped about $4 billion dollars last year, to $9.8 billion, according to the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.
All of Wisconsin’s 72 counties saw a decline in tourism last year compared to 2019. But officials are optimistic about a rebound in 2021, reporting the first four months of the year are shaping up to be better than 2019.