PHILADELPHIA - Businesses in Philadelphia’s Chinatown continue to struggle during the COVID-19 pandemic.Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney dined at a restaurant in Chinatown on Feb.
6 “We’re trying to get the word out through the media that Chinatown is safe. The city’s safe, the state’s safe, the country’s safe.
Everybody should relax,” the mayor said back in Feb.That was a pre-mask mandate and pre-socially distant world. It was a time where COVID-19 had not yet arrived in Philadelphia.By mid-March as cases exploded and the city’s economy came to a halt.