Coronavirus treatment: How many people have recovered from coronavirus?

CORONAVIRUS has now infected more than 5,000 people in the UK, killed thousands around the world and infected a total of more than 200,000 patients. But how many people have recovered from coronavirus?To get more news about coronavirus photographies, you can visit shine news official website.

Coronavirus has sparked worldwide panic after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global health emergency. The virus peaked in February but evidence now suggests China could be overcoming the epidemic.

Mi Feng, a spokesperson for China's National Health Commission, said at a recent briefing: "The rapid rising trend of virus cases in Wuhan has been controlled," according to Reuters.

"Outbreaks in Hubei outside of Wuhan are curbed and provinces outside of Hubei are showing a positive trend.”Despite what seems to be a spiralling rate of infections, the symptoms of coronavirus are reasonably mild.

Dr Nasia Safdar told NBC News: "For most people, this will be the course. It will be like a cold.”Dr Helen Wimalarathna, Lecturer in Health Sciences at the Open University, explained that while the virus has infected more people in comparison to SARS and MERS, the virus also looks less likely to cause fatalities.

She added: "The evidence so far suggests that COVID-19 is spread more easily than either SARS or MERS, but that the consequences of infection are less serious – so for most fit and healthy individuals a COVID-19 infection is likely to be something like a heavy cold.

"For a small proportion of infected individuals, somewhere between one percent and three percent of those with a confirmed case of the disease, the disease can be fatal.

"To put this into context, the case fatality of SARS and MERS were roughly 11 percent and 43 percent, respectively; while the case fatality of measles is around 15 percent.”More than half of coronavirus patients worldwide have become better, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering live tracker.

The tracker shows that of the 354,677 confirmed cases around the globe, 15,436 have died while 100,462 recovered.That’s 28 percent of all patients having recovered, leaving 238,779 - or 67 percent - still sick.

That also means only 4.3 percent of patients have died from the virus.A report from Harvard University read: "Treatment is supportive, which means giving fluids, medicine to reduce fever, and, in severe cases, supplemental oxygen.

"People who become critically ill from COVID-19 may need a respirator to help them breathe.""Bacterial infection can complicate this viral infection. Patients may require antibiotics in cases of bacterial pneumonia as well as COVID-19.

"Antiviral treatments used for HIV and other compounds are being investigated."There’s no evidence that supplements, such as vitamin C, or probiotics will help speed recovery.”

However, the signs suggest many people may have had mild cases of the virus and recovered without special treatment.Compared to SARS and MERS, the risk of serious illness or death is significantly lower.

The report added: "In terms of total deaths in the United States, influenza overwhelmingly causes more deaths today than COVID-19.”

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