The Ministry of science and higher education recommended that the Russian universities to develop distance education students to prevent the spread of coronavirus, said the press service of the Ministry. The corresponding order was signed by the Head of the Ministry of science and education Valery Falkov. "We recommend starting with the March 16, 2020 to build the education of students outside of location of higher educational institutions, as well as among them to provide mastering of educational programs using e-learning and distance educational technologies ", - said in the report. the Ministry of education and science has created an operational headquarters to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus infection. On the official Internet representation of the Agency not later than March 18, will publish the list of online courses for free use by students. yesterday, the Ministry of education advised the regions to transfer to distance learning students. The head of Department Sergey Kravtsov drew attention, because it can be to build within the resources of the Russian electronic school, which is available to over 120 thousand of assignments and tutorials. last week, the world health organization declared the outbreak COVID-19, spread From China, a pandemic. according to the final data, contracted 157 of thousands of people in over 130 countries. Of these, more than six thousand dead, 75 thousand patients were cured. in the European Union 1st place in the spread of the coronavirus took Italy: there have been over 21 thousand infected, 1441 died. <span style="color:darkgray