On Tuesday afternoon, Patrick Vecchio was delivering kosher Chinese food to quarantined Jewish homes in New Rochelle in suburban New York City when he heard the news: He was smack in the middle of the “containment zone” — a one-mile radius around an Orthodox synagogue here. Schools, places of worship and other large gathering areas in the zone will be shut down for two weeks starting Thursday to limit the spread of coronavirus.
Vecchio wouldn’t turn around; the food, from Eden Wok, was ordered by anonymous donors in celebration of the holiday Purim, and the deliveries were expected. He had 30 to go.
