Beijing, Feb 12 (TIWN) Chinese students will be able to attend classes online or study via television as schools postpone the start of the new semester due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, education officials said on Wednesday.

As millions remain quarantined in China to curb the global contagion from the Wuhan Virus, the Minister of Education, Wu Yan, issued guidelines for the colleges and universities to organize online classes for the students, with 22 online platforms offering 24,000 courses to students across the country, the ministry said at a press conference according to the reports.