Yangquan Affiliated School of the Shanghai Yixue Education Group has been offering free online courses to primary and middle school students in Yangquan city in northern Shanxi province since Feb 1 – amid current efforts to contain and control the novel coronavirus outbreak, officials said.

The group has developed a series of online personalized courses adopting artificial intelligence technology.

A company spokesman said that to help the city's students learn at home, the Yangquan affiliated school will provide students with maths, Chinese, English, physics and chemistry courses worth a total of 100,000 yuan ($14,263) per day free of charge until the epidemic caused by the virus ends.