Over 40 million People Recover From Coronavirus Worldwide

Over 40 million People Recover From Coronavirus Worldwide

More than two-thirds of the over 58 million people infected by COVID-19 across the world have recovered from the disease after treatment.

The figure indicates the level of success countries and health professionals have recorded in containing the virus.

As of Monday morning, over 40 million recoveries have been recorded by worldometer.info, a coronavirus tracking platform.

According to the data, 40,765,521 patients won their battle against the disease.

Although people who recover from a viral infection often develop immunity against the same disease, it remains unclear whether this is the case with COVID-19 infection.

The World Health Organization had said that one-time infection of the coronavirus has not yet been proven to result in immunity.

Despite increased recoveries, the death toll has remained high.

COVID-19, the potentially dangerous pneumonia-like disease caused by the coronavirus and said to have emanated from a local Wuhan market to spread to over 200 countries, has also claimed almost 1.4 million lives.

That has exceeded the 290,000 to 650,000 annual deaths linked to influenza.

The United States has been worst affected by the pandemic. Last Sunday, the country reported its 10 millionth case, just 10 days after hitting 9 million. About 12.5 million Americans have now been infected and over 262,000 of them have died.

However, recoveries have not improved significantly in the U.S. compared to countries with lower figures of infections. About 7.4 million patients have recovered in America while India, the second most impacted country with 9.1 million infections, has recorded over 8.5 recoveries.

Placed third in the global chart, Brazil with a little of over six million infections has recorded over 5.4million recoveries.

France, the fourth most impacted is another country where recoveries have not improved. Of the over two million infections, only about 149, 000 patients have recovered.

Most who contract the virus suffer mild symptoms before making a recovery.

There are 16,824,439 active cases as of the time of reporting. Of that number, about 16,721,358 (99 per cent) are in mild conditions while only 103,081 (one per cent) cases are in serious or critical conditions.

Africa

Of the over two million persons infected by COVID-19in Africa, about 1.7 million have recovered, according to data from the African Centre for Disease Control (ACDC).

Since the world’s poorest continent recorded its first case in Egypt in mid-February, there has been 2,057,229 cases and about 49,416 deaths so far – relatively few compared with other regions.