In Connecticut, restaurants are reopening with outdoor-only dining and tables six feet apart.
Experts warned that as many as one-third of the country's restaurants and bars could go out of business, up to 300,000 jobs in the sector could vanish, and losses could reach 30 billion euros (US$32 billion) this year.
In Glastonbury, Connecticut, the Max Fish restaurant opened for lunch with 16 tables on outdoor patios.
They are intended for childcare centres, schools, day camps, mass transit systems, restaurants, bars, and other businesses and organisations.
In South Korea, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors had their temperatures checked and used hand sanitiser as they returned yesterday, many for the first time since late last year.
