There Is Hope As More Than 100,000 People Have Recovered From COVID-19 Worldwide

More than 100,000 people around the world have recovered from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), new data shows.

According to a tracker from Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering, since the outbreak began in December 2019, more than one-quarter of the 372,000 sickened people have recovered.

The achievement offers some hope as the US and several countries in Europe prepare for an increase in infections, deaths, and lockdowns.

In China, more than 81,000 cases have been confirmed and nearly 73,000 have recovered — more than 90 percent.

Among the more than 100,000 who have recovered are nearly 60,000 in China’s Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, the city where the outbreak began.

There have been no new cases in Hubei for at least four days straight and no locally transmitted cases within the whole country.

Authorities say the 46 new cases confirmed in China on Saturday are from people who entered from different countries.

The country has succeeded in slowing down the rate of infection thanks to containment measures, which were implemented from January.

Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, has been on complete lockdown.

Officials have said that the lockdown in Wuhan will be partially lifted on April 8.

Travel restriction in the Chinese province of Hubei will be also lifted for those locals who are healthy.

Meanwhile, in South Korea, the country in Asia with the third most number of infections, the tide appears to have turned.

Out of nearly 9,000 cases, 3,100 — about 35 percent — have recovered, according to Johns Hopkins.

On Sunday, South Korea reported 64 new cases, its lowest number in four weeks when infections in the country peaked.

This is also the twelfth consecutive day that the country had reported less than 100 new cases, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control.

One of the reasons for this downward trend is likely because the South Korean government has been very aggressive when it comes to testing.

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Up to 20,000 people were tested every day for the virus, more people per capita than anywhere else in the world.

There are even some signs that the outbreak is improving in Italy, which has the second-highest number of cases in the world.

On Monday, the number of recoveries surpassed the number of deaths.

According to Johns Hopkins, the European country — which has become the new epicenter of the outbreak — had reported more than 63,000 cases.

Of that number 6,000 people have died, but nearly 7,500 have recovered.

Estimates suggest that 99 percent of people infected with COVID-19 will make a full recovery.

Countries have been struggling to carry out testing as quickly as they would like, meaning the actual figure of recovery is likely to be much higher.

The overall death rate remains low, about one percent, which is less than SARS which was 11 percent but more than the flu, 0.1 percent.

Source: DailyMail