Honda Back to Work in China’s Wuhan With Temperature Checks and Masks

Employees work on a production line inside a Dongfeng Honda factory after lockdown measures in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province and China's epicenter of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, were further eased, on April 8, 2020. Aly Song/Reuters

WUHAN, China—Temperature checkpoints and posters telling workers to keep more than a meter apart at Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co.’s reopened plant in the Chinese city of Wuhan show how the coronavirus has created a new normal on the factory floor.

The plant, a Honda joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Group was shut in late January when authorities ordered a lockdown in Wuhan in a bid to snuff out the coronavirus, which emerged there late last year.