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China is slowly getting back to work on Monday after the deadly coronavirus outbreak forced many parts of the country to extend the Lunar New Year holiday by more than a week. But it's still far from business as usual in the world's second-largest economy.

Officials have issued varied guidance on what companies should be doing as the public holiday comes to an end for much of China and millions return to their place of work. Many districts are asking companies to check the temperature of workers who come to the office. Other instructions are more specific, including one from a district in Shenzhen that asks businesses with lots of migrant workers to set up quarantine areas for employees returning from "infected zones." That's created a patchwork approach to working during the public health crisis.

The coronavirus has killed more than 900 people and infected at least 40,000, mostly in mainland China. The majority of the cases are in the central Chinese province of Hubei, where life remains mostly at a standstill.

Elsewhere in China, though, some big companies are trying to return to work — albeit with serious precautions. Others remain shut down.

Huawei, the country's top smartphone maker, on Monday reopened its Shenzhen headquarters where it employs about 40,000 people, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person said its decision was in line with local guidelines that authorized businesses to reopen.

But Huawei employees returned to a dramatically different environment than the one they left in January. When they clock in each morning, workers must now provide details about their body temperature and whereabouts for the last two weeks, the person said. There will also be temperature checks at office buildings and parking lots, while face masks and hand sanitizers are being dispensed all over campus.

Tencent (TCEHY), which is also based in Shenzhen, said its staff in mainland China were working from home on Monday, and will continue to do so for at least the next two weeks. The company's office in Hong Kong, where there are at least 38 confirmed cases, is tentatively set to reopen next week.

"The health and safety of our employees is of the utmost importance to us," a company spokesperson told CNN Business. "Accordingly, Tencent will continue to monitor the situation closely and will revise these arrangements as necessary."

Many others took a similar approach. Microsoft's (MSFT) team in mainland China will stay home for at least another week while its Hong Kong office continues to operate as usual, a spokesperson said.

Chinese ride-hailing provider Didi and Audi's China team are also extending their remote working practices through Friday. And e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) has asked employees to work from home for another week, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Drone-maker DJI is asking employees to work from home until further notice, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Other companies are allowing their workers to return to the office, but under strict conditions.

Baidu (BIDU), China's top search engine provider, said that it was "gradually" reopening its offices on Monday. But employees who come in "must meet quarantine conditions, and they can only return to work in the campus after approval," the company said in an internal memo seen by CNN Business.

Dane Anderson, vice president and regional manager of Asia Pacific at Forrester Research, said the confusion among companies about how to manage the outbreak was predictable, given a lack of preparation.

"Most organizations focus their business continuity plans on losses, such as the loss of facilities, technology or people, but not on impact-based scenarios such as the current novel coronavirus," he told CNN Business. "Unfortunately, most organizations will be learning on the go, which will lead to more confusion along the way."

Automakers have also been wrestling with when to allow employees to work again.

Toyota (TM), for example, had been weighing whether to reopen its China plants Monday, but recently extended those closures another week. Volkswagen (VLKAF), which said last week that it expected to resume some vehicle production Monday, did not respond to a request for comment.

General Motors (GM) said Monday it would resume production in China from February 15, staggering the restart over a two-week period based on factors such as employee safety, supply chain readiness and product inventory needs.

The Chinese government may soon provide some more clarity for businesses. China's State Council said Monday that it plans to hold a press conference Tuesday to discuss how China is helping companies resume production. (CNN)

Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov has donated the original 1892 manuscript of the manifesto of the Olympics to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The original 14-page copy of Pierre de Coubertin's speech, in which the French aristocrat first outlined his vision of the modern Olympic Games, was bought at a New York auction for $8,806,500 in December last year, according to Sothebys.

A former stakeholder in Arsenal who has an estimated net worth of $12.6 billion, Usmanov is the president of the International Fencing Federation.

"Pierre de Coubertin had a vision of a world united by athletic pursuits and not divided by confrontations and wars. I believe that the Olympic Museum is the most appropriate place to keep this priceless manuscript," said Usmanov on Monday.

It is the first time the manifesto has been displayed to the public, months before the 2020 Games get underway in Tokyo.

Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) two years after giving the speech in Paris, and in 1896 the first modern Games was staged in Athens, Greece.

In the speech, Coubertin envisions a world united by sporting competition, where athletics would do more to bring about peace than "telegraph, railways, the telephone, the passionate research in science, congresses and exhibitions" have.

The manuscript exceeded its estimated sale price by nearly $8 million and, according to Sotheby's, set the auction record for sporting memorabilia.

"Today we are witnessing history," said IOC president Thomas Bach.

"At one level, we are witness to this historic document, the manuscript of the speech that laid out the philosophical foundations of the Olympic Movement.

"On another level, we are witnessing a historic moment, with this manuscript returning to its Olympic home, the place where it belongs."

De Coubertin also gave the Olympics its current motto of citius, altius, fortius -- faster, higher stronger -- a phrase he borrowed from his friend Henri Didon.

Usmanov's USM company is also Everton's current training ground sponsor and last month agreed a $39 million (£30 million) deal for the naming rights of the Premier League club's new stadium. (CNN)

A federal grand jury has charged four members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with hacking Equifax and stealing personal data and trade secrets in one of the largest hacks on record.

Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the scale of the theft in 2017 was "staggering" and the suspects obtained information for nearly 150 million Americans. The attorney general said the hack was one of the largest on record and was a "deliberate and sweeping intrusion into the private information of the American people."

Speaking at a news conference in Washington, Barr noted that it's unusual for the US to charge members of another country's military or intelligence service outside the US, but said the hack "not only caused significant financial damage to Equifax, but invaded the privacy of many millions of Americans, and imposed substantial costs and burdens on them as they have had to take measures to protect against identity theft."

"This data has economic value and these thefts can feed China's development of artificial intelligence tools as well as the creation of intelligence targeting packages," Barr said.

Equifax first disclosed the hack, the largest in US history, in September 2017, three months after the company discovered the breach. The hack exposed sensitive information, including names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers and addresses.

Hackers leveraged a security flaw in a tool designed to build web applications to steal customer data. Equifax admitted it was aware of the security flaw a full two months before the company says hackers first accessed its data.

The data breach prompted the resignation of CEO Richard Smith and investigations by federal regulators, multiple states attorneys general and the company faces a number of civil lawsuits.

Bill Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, told reporters Monday that the Equifax hack reflects the type of "consistent, persistent and unacceptable" activity from China that has been observed over the last year -- posing a significant counterintelligence threat to the US.

Foreign adversaries -- and China in particular -- continue to target the US private sector to steal personal data and trade secrets in a way that reflects the broader need to for a "systemic change" in the way American companies and the public view those threats, Evanina said, adding that attacks like the one on Equifax must be viewed as a counterintelligence issue rather than just a cyber threat.

"Equifax has all of your data and Americans should care about that," Evanina said.

That data is being used by foreign intelligence services for many purposes, including to enhance their country's artificial intelligence capabilities -- a goal that requires a much information as possible, he warned.

A major concern, according to Evanina, is China's targeting of Americans, particularly government officials who do not possess a security clearance, by using data of this nature to identify potential vulnerabilities and using that information as leverage for their own purposes.

"Today we saw yet another indictment of the Chinese military for targeting the US private sector, highlighting their long-term effort to undermine US economic competitiveness and our strategic position globally," said Jamil N. Jaffer, senior vice president for strategy, partnerships & corporate development at IronNet Cybersecurity.

"This intentional data theft is part of a larger Chinese effort to go after US companies, and it is therefore critical that American and allied companies work with one another -- and across industries -- to collectively defend themselves against this committed threat actor," said Jaffer, who also previously served as the chief counsel and senior adviser to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and currently serves as founder and executive director of the National Security Institute at GMU Law School. (CNN)

Heavy rainfall in Australia's New South Wales has forced the evacuation of several towns and the closure of more than 50 schools, but also extinguished some of the persistent bush fires that have devastated the state.

The country's Bureau of Meteorology said the region has seen more than 200 millimeters (7.9 inches) of rainfall in the past 24 hours. In Sydney, preliminary information from the bureau showed that 391.6 millimeters (15.4 inches) of rain fell over the past four days -- the city's heaviest rainfall since 1990.

Scores of schools were temporarily closed by the Department of Education in New South Wales on Monday because of heavy flooding. The Bureau of Meteorology also issued a number of warnings for heavy rains, wind and further flooding on Monday.

New South Wales Rural Fire Service tweeted Monday, however, that the rains have helped to extinguish over 30 fires since Friday, describing it as the "most positive news we've had in some time." Some of these blazes have been burning for months.

According to New South Wales Rural Fire Service media officer James Morris, the torrential rain helped put out the Currowan fire on Saturday. That particular fire burned 499,621 hectares of land over 74 days.

Morris said the ongoing rain was expected to put out the five remaining uncontrolled fires in the state. (CNN)