Number of People Worldwide Cured of Coronavirus Exceeds 200,000
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – 202,935: This is the number of people who have been cured worldwide in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic by the end of Thursday morning, April 2nd, according to Johns Hopkins University. China, the country where the virus emerged in late December, is the leader in the number of people cured, with over 76,000 people recovered. Next comes Spain, with 26,743, Germany, with 19,175 and Italy, with 16,847.
In Brazil, 127 people have been cured to date, according to real-time monitoring by Johns Hopkins.
Despite ranking fourth in the number of cured people, Italy is the leader in death toll, with over 13,000 deaths and some 110,000 confirmed cases. The United States is now the epicenter of the virus in the world, with 216,768 cases.
In Brazil, approximately 7,000 cases have been confirmed and 241 people have died, the majority in the state of São Paulo, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
There is no set time frame for how long it takes a person to recover from covid-19. In milder cases, authorities have requested at least 14 quarantine days. China established another 14 – totaling 28 – before declaring people cured.
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