Solo lunches and masks: Chinese returning to work grapple with coronavirus

FILE PHOTO: Jin Yang, 28, who works in a department of China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange, has his temperature checked at an entrance to his office, in the morning on his first day of returning to work after the extended Lunar New Year holiday caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Beijing, China February 10, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese government employee Jin Yang returned to work in Beijing this week to find his usual workplace rules upended as China battles a coronavirus epidemic.

His office has banned the practice of eating lunch in its canteen with colleagues, in favour of boxed meals, packaged in house and eaten at desks, he said.