Just about 300 million understudies overall confronted a long time at home on Thursday as specialists shut schools in excess of twelve nations trying to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, UNESCO said.
The coronavirus has spread from China to about 80 countries, contaminating more than 95,000 individuals and causing the passings of more than 3,200.
Italy shut all schools and colleges on Thursday until at any rate March 15 and energized internet instructing as it attempted to slow the pace of tainting in Europe's most noticeably awful hit nation.
"The worldwide scale and speed of the current instructive disturbance is unrivaled and, whenever delayed, could compromise the privilege to training," said Audrey Azoulay, executive general of Paris-based